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Last Christmas she moved into an empty shop in Fulham for a month or so and, since the premises are still empty, she has decided to give shopkeeping another go.

At the end of last month she set up her stylish stock of mainly 20th century design items, with much from the 1940s, at 915 Fulham Road, near Munster Road, London SW6. Nearest tubes Parsons Green and Putney Bridge. She moves out on January 2.