SHERBORNE ANTIQUES MARKET Words Jo Denbury Photography Katharine Davies
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ull disclosure here: I am a huge fan of clutter. Of course, I don’t see it as clutter, more a spread of ‘collections’ that I have built up over the years. There are the books, the mid-20th century chairs, the German ceramics… It was only last year when I squeezed in moving house between lockdowns that I realised that my obsessions were turning into a health hazard. The removal man lifted the final two heavy boxes into the van with a, ‘What’s in these then?’ and I replied, ‘Snow globes,’ and I knew, with a heavy heart that I should rein myself in. But you see those snow globes represent my life. I have bought one in every country I have visited. They cost very little yet each one brings back a place, a moment in time and that is the great thing about collecting. You can imagine my glee when I discovered Craig Wharton and Phillip Traves had taken over what was The Edinburgh Woollen Mill and turned it into Sherborne’s Antique Market; it offered a whole new world of potential, right on our doorstep. >
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