The shop's cluttered shelves hold numerous treasures among more mundane junk, like stacks of handmade copper plates and bowls, vivid enameled plates and antique cowbells, 30 to 50 lira.
There were his wedding-cake figurines and a stack of old, bawdy handmade holiday cards he'd given to his wife.
Dickinson scholars have long hotly argued over questions like her sexuality and her reasons for not publishing, along with issues that might strike ordinary readers as bafflingly arcane, from the precise angle and length of her dashes to the significance of the way she stacked the pages of her handmade books before sewing them together.
Standing behind its glass counter where shelves offer handmade chocolate from Brooklyn, she's barely visible through the stacks of lollipops and lunch boxes, baskets and gift bags.
Kerstin Brätsch's stacks of plexiglass sheets serve as display shelves for handmade books, themselves mini-sculptures with perforated pages pierced by metal rings.
The coffee table-worthy products include Andrew O. Hughes' geometric ashtray and lighter set that changes colour in the light and stacks into a sculptural piece when not in use; handmade porcelain pipes dipped in 22-karat gold care of The Pursuits of Happiness; a Tom Dixon brass-plated storage container; and USB-powered oil-slick lighters by Tribe of the Eastern Sun.
Sometimes the stacked tables serve as pedestals for Mr. Fischer's small, gnomic, handmade sculptures of birds, crude heads and, appropriately, gaping mouths.
And in the back, there were several sewing machines and cabinets full of colourful fabrics stacked on top of one another, ready to be cut into handmade samples.
And in the back, there were several sewing machines and cabinets full of colorful fabrics stacked on top of one another, ready to be cut into handmade samples.
Its shelves are stacked with everything from clotted cream fudge and Ashridge organic cider to handmade pork pies by Chunk of Devon and locally smoked duck.
