Dickens • Victorian London • Childhood
Oliver Twist
A Dickensian journey through Victorian London, childhood, poverty, reform and the objects of everyday life.
$65
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One book. A world of objects and ideas.
Each journey begins with a book and gathers vintage and found objects around its setting, themes, characters, history and ideas. No two are alike; even the vessel becomes part of the story.
Jazz Age • Excess • Longing
The Great Gatsby
Art Deco glamour, automobiles, clocks, glassware and glittering surfaces evoke Fitzgerald’s world of excess and longing.
$65
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Dickens • Ambition • Victorian England
Great Expectations
Lace, keepsakes and Victorian curiosities open a path into Pip, Miss Havisham, class, ambition and expectation.
$65
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Wonderland • Tea • Nonsense
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A 1952 edition anchors a playful world of tea, time, cards, looking-glasses and curious objects.
$70
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Garden • Renewal • Childhood
The Secret Garden
Garden tools, tea, greenery and domestic treasures evoke secrecy, renewal and the restorative power of the natural world.
$45
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Tolstoy • Imperial Russia • Society
Anna Karenina
An antique samovar and heavy antique tiara bring ritual, status, society and the novel’s Russian world into the room.
$80
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Anne Brontë • Marriage • Independence
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Domestic objects frame one of the nineteenth century’s most startlingly independent heroines.
$65
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Riverbank • Modernity • Friendship
The Wind in the Willows
Riverbank nostalgia, tea, boats and the disruption of the motorcar become a tactile reading experience.
$75
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Regency • Wit • Ritual
Bridgerton
Tea, correspondence, femininity, wit and social performance.
$45
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Austen • Bath • Conversation
Jane Austen
Tea, observation, romance, irony and the dangerous art of noticing everything.
$60
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Leroux • Opera • Obsession
The Phantom of the Opera
A dark theatrical journey through Gaston Leroux’s Paris Opera House, with a mask, candlelight, mirror and shadowed details that evoke beauty, secrecy and obsession.
$65
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Alcott • Sensation Fiction • Hidden Identity
Louisa May Alcott’s Darker Side
A journey beyond Little Women into Alcott’s sensational fiction, pairing Behind a Mask with darker Victorian details and the dangerous possibilities of reinvention.
$65
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Poe • Mystery • Mourning
Edgar Allan Poe: Poe Knows
A clear, richly layered Poe journey built around the red Poe Knows volume and blue Poe collection, with gothic keepsakes that echo mystery, mourning and the macabre.
$65
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Poe • Masquerade • The Macabre
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque
A second Poe journey inspired by masquerade, secrecy and The Masque of the Red Death, featuring a dramatic mask, green Poe volume, raven-black details and a Property of Prospero tag.
$70
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