The best interiors shops in London
When it comes to determining the best interiors shops in London, the choice that the capital has to offer is vast, spreading across the whole city with independent gems to be discovered alongside the big names you already know. Whether you're after fabric or furniture, there really is something out there for every aesthetic or budget.
For antiques and high end pieces, look to the Pimlico Road, where boutique-esque shops are balanced out by interior design offices and antique showrooms. For both inspiration and shopping, Chelsea Design Harbour is the largest centre of its kind in Europe, housing 120 showrooms and over 600 luxury brands. So, if you can’t face trekking from East to West and back again, the centre can act as a one stop shop. For more affordable options, the high street now has some of the best interiors shops in London, from Mango Home to John Lewis.
It can be daunting to decide where to go when in need of wallpaper ideas, a sofa bed, paint or living room furniture. Lovely, tactile shops, that are heaven to browse and gather ideas from, even if you aren't buying.
The best interiors shops in London
Joshua Monaghan1/51Robert Kime
Robert Kime was one of the world's most renowned decorators and antiques dealers. Browsing his London shop is like visiting a house he has designed, and is inspiring to visit even if you're not buying. If you are, then his range of furniture, antiques, fabrics and wallpapers are sublime and there is no better way to choose than seeing them in the flesh.
190-192 Ebury St, London SW1W 8UP
Simon Brown2/51Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler
Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler was founded in the 1930s and is the longest established interior decorating firm in Great Britain, as well as one of the most respected. The Pimlico Road showroom, which sells a mix of antiques and new designs is curated by their decorators - including our Designer of the Year Philip Hooper - and is a fabulous opportunity to see the work of the masters up close.
89-91 Pimlico Rd, Belgravia, London SW1W 8PH
Ngoc Minh Ngo3/51Paper & Paints
Paper & Paints has been in the same shop since 1960, originally founded by Robert Baty and now run by his son Patrick who is one of the world's foremost experts on paint and historical colour. Take any piece of fabric, scrap of paint or book jacket and they can mix you the exact colour in paint.
4 Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0AD
4/51Rachel & Malika's
For handmade West African crafts – from homewares to jewellery – Rachel & Malika's in Brixton Village is where to head. They bring a riot of colour to their corner of the market, with a shop filled with textiles, furniture and trinkets.
Unit 34, 3rd Avenue, Brixton Village, SW9 8PS
Ollie Tomlinson5/51The New Craftsmen
In 2010 The New Craftsmen revolutionised the way we buy British craft. Seeking out some of the best, and hardest to reach, makers and craftspeople in the UK and working with them to develop contemporary pieces using traditional techniques. In the shop you'll find furniture, art and jewellery from both established and up-and-coming makers. A must if you're in the market for something exceptional and handmade.
34 N Row, Mayfair, London W1K 6DG
6/51Liberty
One of the best shops in London generally, Liberty has stepped up its homewares offering and alongside kitsch ceramics and their signature fabrics, there are also stylish brands at varying price points to be found throughout the store. They also have an excellent range of Astier de Villatte to swoon over.
Regent Street, Soho, W1B 5AH
7/51Warris Vianni
Golborne Road is west London's best kept secret for interiors hunting, with a handful of unmissable shops lining the pavement. Warris Vianni is one of these. Specialising in Indian textiles, the walls are lined with gem-coloured cushions in a variety of fabrics and the textiles they stock are produced just for them using specialist, traditional techniques. Once you've found your perfect fabric, pop next door to Susan Osbourne, a specialist in French chairs, and choose something else to reupholster.
85 Golborne Rd, London W10 5NL
8/51Mint Shop
Since 1998, Lina Kanafani has been running her design gallery in central London, gaining recognition for her contemporary, cutting edge eye and innovative one-off pieces.
2 North Terrace, Alexander Square, London, SW3 2BA
9/51The Hackney Draper
Craftsmanship and sustainability are at the heart of east London shop The Hackney Draper, who aim to produce fabrics of top quality that will last a lifetime. All their textiles are hand-sewn in their London workshop but fabrics sourced from across the globe are also sold.
25 Chatsworth Rd, Lower Clapton, London E5 0LH
10/51The Cloth Shop
The Cloth Shop is one of our favourite places for affordable fabrics. Situated on the Portobello Road just north of the Westway, the shop sells a huge range of fabrics for furnishings and clothing, impeccably organised and reasonably priced. Their range of coloured linen is famous.
290 Portobello Rd, London W10 5TE
11/51Trove by Studio Duggan
Trove launched in 2019 as the product wing of interior design firm Studio Duggan. Their west London shop is filled with extremely stylish furniture and accessories.
99 Golborne Rd, London W10 5NL
Owen Gale12/51Jermaine Gallacher
Jermaine Gallacher's shop at Lant St Wine near Borough is home to an intensely cool collection of postmodern and contemporary furniture; the fact that it's also a bar and wine shop is just another reason to visit. The pieces Gallacher sells range from brightly coloured Memphis-style furniture to the sparer shapes of his signature zigzag candlesticks; delicate, brightly coloured glassware sits beside heavy iron chains and surreal, animal-like wooden chairs.
59 Lant St, London SE1 1QN
13/51Adam Bray
Having started off his career as a dealer, interior designer Adam Bray has returning to his roots with a new shop in Camden. The shop is full of the interesting, idiosyncratic pieces he is so good at finding for his projects. "They're not particularly easy to categorise," he says of the pieces he stocks. "They tend to be practical as well as attractive, but they're all sorts of things from all sorts of periods. I try to be very open-minded in my buying and allow the stock to dictate itself."
3a Murray Street, NW1 9RE
14/51Alex Eagle Studio
Visiting Alex Eagle’s sprawling shop on Lexington Street in Soho is designed to feel like a trip to an impossibly cool friend’s house. As well as clothes, Alex specialises in all that is current and cool in interiors, whether that’s a Luke Edward Hall print, a JP Demeyer cushion or a one of a kind vintage sofa.
6-10 Lexington St, Soho, London W1F 0LB
15/51Milagros
Anyone in search of authentic handmade tiles, glassware and decorative items from Mexico should have Milagros at the top of their hit list. The Columbia Road-based store, which has been going strong for the past 30 years, is the address to know for delightfully colourful and creative Mexican goods, from encaustic and saltillo tiles to bright, patterned options and hand-blown glassware.
61 Columbia Rd, London E2 7RG
16/51Choosing Keeping
A good stationery store is absolutely irresistible, and Choosing Keeping is better than most, with its sophisticated selection ranging from Antoinette Poisson’s exquisite domino papers to sketchbooks with hand-marbled edges.
21 Tower Street, London WC2H 9NS
17/51Summerill & Bishop
For the finest tablecloths, napkins and linens, there are few who can beat Summerill & Bishop’s resplendent offerings. They don’t shy away from colour and print and always have an enticing new collection in store.
100 Portland Rd, London W11 4LQ
18/51Cloth House
Originally one of a clutch of fabric shops along Soho’s Berwick Street, Cloth House – a beloved institution for interior designers and amateurs alike, with a wealth of beautifully displayed textiles both new and vintage – has moved to new premises and is every inch as wonderful.
130 Royal College St, London NW1 0TA
19/51The French House
Next time you’re thinking of hopping across the Channel to pick up some Gallic designs from the brocantes, consider dropping by Parson’s Green instead where the team at The French House import the best antique pieces so you don’t have to get on the Eurotunnel.
Unit 15 Parsons Green Depot, 33-39 Parsons Green Lane, London SW6 4HH
20/51Twenty Twenty One
In the smart surrounds of Upper Street sits this mecca for contemporary, Scandi-chic furniture and icons of twentieth century design. If you’ve seen an iconic piece of modern furniture you love, chances are you can find it here.
274/275 Upper Street London N1 2UA
21/51Design Centre Chelsea Harbour
Over 600 of the best names in interior design are house in the hallowed halls of DCCH, an emporium of fabrics, wallpapers, furnishings, accessories and so much more. In normal times, there are often talks happening within the space, which is mostly used by people in the trade.
Lots Rd, Fulham, London SW10 0XE
22/51Pinch
The husband and wife duo behind Pinch set up the brand with the impetus of creating furniture they would want to live with. The result is modern, clean lines, sleek silhouettes and utterly covetable collections.
200 Ebury St, London SW1W 8UN
23/51Lassco
Leading the way in architectural salvage, Lassco has been uniting Londoners with restored pieces since 1979. They can be found out in south east London, as well as in the ever stylish Brunswick House.
30 Wandsworth Rd, London SW8 2LG
Joshua Monaghan24/51Nicholas Haslam
Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen are the talent behind the Nicholas Haslam shop off Pimlico Road, stocked with antiques and their own designs for furniture, lighting and fabrics. They’ve made the shop so lovely, you’d want to live in it.
12-14 Holbein Pl, London SW1W 8NL
25/51Caravane
French interiors destination Caravane opened its first UK shop in Marylebone in 2014, and there’s now a new outpost in trendy Coal Drops Yard. Both branches are treasure troves of bright and colourful fabrics, alongside unusual accessories and the kind of understatedly cool furniture that would be welcome in any kind of space.
Units 52/54 - Coal Drops Yard - Stable Street, London, N1C 4DQ | 38/40 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 8UD
26/51Labour & Wait
In endlessly trendy Shoreditch is this haven for straightforward vintage-inspired homewares. Come here for enamel teapots, cotton work jackets, and an array of well-designed, distinctly un-frou-frou stationery, including cloth-bound notebooks and staplers that seem to have emerged unscathed from the 1950s.
85 Redchurch St, London E2 7DJ
27/51Borough Kitchen
A mecca for chefs and enthusiastic home cooks alike, Borough Kitchen (which has outposts in Chiswick and Hampstead too) not only stocks the best cookware, but also the most stylish. So, even if you can’t cook like a pro, you sure can make your kitchen look stellar.
16 Borough High St, London SE1 9QG
28/51Nina Campbell
When not working on her clients’ projects, the world-renowned interior designer tends to her shop which is filled with luxury wallpapers, fabrics, carpets and home accessories. Her taste is exquisite and the shop is the proof.
9 Walton St, London SW3 2JD
29/51Designers Guild
This Kings Road stalwart has been in business for 50 years, specialising in the design and wholesale of fabrics and wallcoverings. The business has expanded to encompass furniture and rugs too, making it an emporium for many interior designers in the business.
267-277 Kings Road, SW3 5EN
30/51Chelsea Textiles
Started in 1990 by former fashion buyer Mona Perlhagen, Chelsea Textiles looks to the 17th and 18th century for inspiration and creates fabrics to the same exacting standards and inspiring designs. The company has expanded to encompass 20th-century style furniture too.
40-42 Pimlico Road, London, SW1W 8LP
Cristian Barnett31/51Soane
Soane are advocates for British production and travel the country to find the best craftspeople to bring their designs to life. Co-founder Lulu Lyttle saved Britain’s last rattan weaving factory and in the 20 years Soane has been in business, they have cultivated close working relationships with a network of talented craftsmen across the country.
50-52 Pimlico Rd, London SW1W 8LP
32/51Cologne & Cotton
Few things make a home more inviting than crisp white linen, and this is the speciality at Cologne and Cotton, whether you like your bedding patterned, embroidered, or clean and simple.
88 Marylebone High St, Marylebone, London W1U 4QX
33/51The Conran Shop
An essential destination since it was originally opened in Chelsea in 1973, The Conran Shop is the home of design classics, from mid-century must-haves–Eames chairs and Poulsen pendant lights–to ‘future collectibles’ from today’s most exciting talents.
55 Marylebone High St, Marylebone, London W1U 5HS | 81 Fulham Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 6RD
34/51Pentreath & Hall
Co-owned by Ben Pentreath and Bridie Hall, this Bloomsbury shop is full of utterly stylish homewares, from Bridie’s colourful designs inspired by the ancient world to contemporary takes on Georgian furniture.
17 Rugby St, Holborn, London WC1N 3QT
35/51Couverture & The Garbstore
With an excellent roster of brands, Couverture & The Garbstore stocks a selective edit of only the best designed pieces. Expect Scandi brands and Japanese silhouettes with a smattering of fashion brands who have branched out into interiors.
188 Kensington Park Rd, London W11 2ES
36/51Retrouvius
Over in Kensal Green, Retrouvius is another utterly brilliant reclamation and vintage shop. Used by interior designers across the country, a visit to the shop can last for hours as you rifle through a myriad glorious pieces.
1016 Harrow Rd, London NW10 5NS
37/51Jamb
Dealing in antiques and immaculately reproduced eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chimneypieces, lights, and garden ornaments, Jamb brings the English country-house look to the mainstream aesthetic and is one of a line up of stellar shops on Pimlico Road.
95-97 Pimlico Rd, London SW1W 8PH
38/51Fermoie
British fabric maker Fermoie specialises in printed cottons and linens, all of which they design in house and print in a UK factory. Their pieces are covetable and can be found in the most stylish houses.
53-55 Pimlico Rd, London SW1W 8NE
39/51Linley
Founded by David Linley in 1985, this shop started life as the address to know for cabinet-making. Now, alongside the designs that made its name, Linley stocks all manner of top quality homewares, from accessories to furniture, as well as being a maker of bespoke kitchens and fitted cabinetry.
60 Pimlico Rd, Belgravia, London SW1W 8LP
40/51Howe
Christopher Howe is an interior designer and antiques dealer extraordinaire, with a shop filled to the brim with utterly lovely items. As well as the finds he sources with his gimlet eye, Christopher designs his own pieces too, with an emphasis on them being as top quality as they possibly can.
93 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8PH
41/51The Cross
One of London's very first lifestyle boutiques, The Cross, W11 is brimful of one of a kind homewares, sourced from all around the globe. For the most beautiful rugs from Pakistan to Moroccan accessories, you're sure to always find a hidden gem here.
141 Portland Rd, Notting Hill, London W11 4LR- 42/51
Joss Graham
Since 1980, Joss has been dealing in specialist fabrics from around the world, pulling in customers who are interested in the history of textiles and traditions from elsewhere. From Tibet to North Africa, he travels the world to find his wares.
10 Eccleston St, London SW1W 9LT 
43/51Hilary Batstone
Clearly taste can pass through the generations, as a mere stone’s throw from her daughter, Rose Uniacke’s, shop is Hilary Batstone’s temple to antique delights.
84 Bourne St, London SW1W 8HQ
44/51Rose Uniacke
Where many on Pimlico Road look to antiques for inspiration or to sell, Rose stands out with her modern, luxurious designs. Her fabrics are impeccable and her furniture is elegant, understated and precisely what most houses need.
76 Pimlico Rd, London SW1W 8PL
45/51Tom Dixon
Another denizen of Coal Drops Yard, Tom Dixon is well known for the industrial glamour of his statement lighting. The store also contains a wide range of his other work, including tables in metal and marble, stylishly rotund chairs and chic stationery.
4-10 Bagley Walk, Kings Cross, London N1C 4DH
46/51Gordon Watson
Amongst a wealth of antique dealers, Gordon Watson stands out for his collection of 20th century and contemporary pieces. He specialises in French and Italian design and has some real showstoppers in his store.
28 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8LJ
47/51Lamp London
Lamp London in Peckham sits proudly in pink on the corner of Maxted Road and stocks a host of our favourite new brands that can mostly be found via Instagram. As well as a beautifully curated array of cushions, candles, lights, and blankets, they have all the little smalls that make a house a home.
20b Maxted Rd, London SE15 4LF
48/51Aleta
Aleta is a by appointment only fabric company in south London, with a focus on limited edition, bespoke and hand-produced fabrics, soft furnishings, paints and wallpapers inspired by the decorative arts and designs of 17th and 18th Century India.
Studio 83, Battersea Business Centre, 99/109 Lavender Hill, London SW11 5QL
49/51Circus Brixton
One of the first shops to play a part in the regeneration of Brixton Village, Circus is a treasure trove of colourful and jolly pieces that add instant intrigue to your house. Part-antique, part-brands, they source from all over the world to find lots of charming unique things for your house.
79 Brixton Village, London, SW9 8PS
50/51Do South
With a Nigerian father and Irish mother, owner Freddie describes Do South's aesthetic as 'afrocentric,' whether that's represented by the pieces in the showroom or the colours he is drawn to. The team there form part of a design studio, who can also be on hand to help with interior design projects, or simply sourcing the perfect piece.
2 Westow St, Upper Norwood, London SE19 3AH
51/51House of Hackney
Drawing inspiration from nature, husband and wife duo Freida and Javvy have headed up maximalist brand House of Hackney since its conception in 2011. Colour and bold patterns form the lifeblood of this interiors brand and you can find a wealth of beautiful wallpapers, blinds, fabrics and furniture both on their website and in store.
St Michael's, Mark St, London EC2A 4ER
