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Coverage on weheart.co.uk online magazine.

By Susannah Dowse

It’s the ambition of many an independent business to get themselves a bricks and mortar premises, especially if you’re in retail; it’s somewhere people can walk into, sit down in, somewhere you can hang things from the walls, where they can be picked up and examined. Something concrete to make it all seem a bit more real. And there’s no shop window like a… shop window.

Brighton-based designer Susannah Dowse has achieved her ambition with the help of interiors people Baines & Fricker, combining her creative studio with a shop sellingDowse jewellery as well as gift products from other local and national artisans. We’ve long been fans of husband and wife duo Steve Baines and Eliza Fricker, and the couple’s signature style is writ large, although subtly, across the shop in the Hove area. Their clean fresh wood furniture and fixtures provide a perfectly pale display environment, the hand drawn designs of their wallpaper and prints are inventive, and of course there’s a B&F fruit crate tucked away somewhere. As Susannah herself says, it’s nice to see something on the high street that’s not a café or a boarded up video shop, and her first retail outlet is a particularly welcome addition to Brighton’s.

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New Service at the Brighton shop: The Wish List

By Susannah Dowse

We now provide a Wish List service at the Brighton shop. All you need to do is come in, have...

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Elle Decoration design awards

By Susannah Dowse

If you've visited our shop and like it you might consider nominating it in the Elle Decoration awards for Destination...

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We opened a shop.

By Susannah Dowse

You may already have experienced the satisfying feeling of wearing DOWSE's unique jewellery in the knowledge you are also supporting...

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Shop Launch

By Susannah Dowse

The DOWSE shop will launch this Thursday 23rd May 6pm - 9pm drinks and bites provided for your merriment. So...

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Exciting times

By Susannah Dowse

Things may have seemed a little quiet around for a while. The reason being we've been a bit distracted by...

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Collaboration with Ayten Gasson Lingerie.

By Susannah Dowse

We're very happy to have teamed up Ayten Gasson Lingerie on a limited edition range of bridal lingerie. Available in either a gift...

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New jewellery collection: The Tender Line

By Susannah Dowse

The title The Tender Line hopes to capture the humanity and fragility of an idea and then how it's made...

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The House that DOWSE built.

By Susannah Dowse

Welcome to the new home for designs by Dowse.  Dowse previously worked with good friend Ridley as Ridley & Dowse,...

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