What we do
Established in Bath over ten years ago, and now located in a restored bank in Castle Cary, Article is the creative output of musician and retailer Lucy Quantrill Simon.
“Possessed of my own clear aesthetic principles, an eye for design and a taste for quality, I hope you enjoy the eclectic offering my shop brings, of good things for stylish living. I check everything I buy for quality, value, sustainability and beauty.
I make a lot of the the candles and botanical range myself, in addition to all the dried floristry arrangements, plus Liberty fabric accessories.
I would describe my shop’s style as being inspired by nature in terms of materials and subject, mixed with an artistic and intelligent design aesthetic, inspired by movements in art, and also by the nostalgia within our childhood hearts.
Someone at Time Out magazine once described my first shop (in Edinburgh, 2007), as “A thinking lady’s boutique” which I rather hope still fits…”
about our Dried Flowers
Founder, Lucy Simon
Originally from Sussex, and a trained classical musician, Article founder Lucy Simon used to spend every Saturday as a teenager exploring all the independent shops in her home town of Brighton, being endlessly inspired by the retail landscape in the buzzing seaside town. She opened her first shop at the age of 24, in Edinburgh, and has kept shop since, subsequently moving to Bath and then rural Somerset and moving her shop along with the journeying. Since marrying Art Gallerist David in Bath some time ago, the pair operate their two businesses, the art gallery and shop, alongside eachother, now housed in a restored Georgian bank on Castle Cary’s High Street. Their little daughter sometimes joins them and loves to join in and talk to people. Lucy is in the shop most days and oversees every aspect of her business.