Glasgow: Design

Princes Square: Boutique and designer shopping

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

A cut above the ordinary, Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street which hosts a range of relatively upmarket shops, along with a selection of restaurants.

The elegant building dates from 1841, and became Princes Square (with additional art nouveau atrium and sweeping escalators) in the mid-1980s; at the time it was a novel […]

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Form Shop at the Lighthouse: Design gifts and housewares

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Form, the shop at the Lighthouse is perfect for gift shopping for artful friends, as well as stocking up on Moleskines.

It stocks a range of architecture and design books, mostly with a Glaswegian/Scottish/British slant as well as housewares and stationery, and the range of tongue-in-cheek birthday cards means that it’s a brilliant last stop shop […]

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