Designer Esra: Liberty London

Last weekend I had the opportunity to *finally* visit Liberty. I know it was very overdue especially that almost every English crafty friend I had recommended it. Liberty was tucked away from the main street, which makes it more of a destination. The shop was established in 1875 by Arthur Liberty. After the great success it was received with, this current Tudor style building was completed in the 1920s. It was designed by Edwin T. Hall and his son Edwin S. Hall and constructed from the timber of two ships: HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan. You can clearly see all of this in the facade. Read more about the history on the Liberty's main website.

There are few doors to Liberty and my favourite one was the florist front. The flowers were colourful and smelled so good.

and you go in and see more arrangement choices and lovely flower pots and bits.

The interior design of the place is as magnificent as the architecture, especially with the quadruple open ceiling that ends with a glass roof that brings a lot of natural light. The style of balconies on each floor of the four floors makes the whole store interconnected.

The design and the divisions of spaces are symmetrical and angular.

There are many subsections for all the different available categories from fashion, accessories, stationary, home ware, furniture to everything in between.

Below is my favourite shot, when the elevator opened and had a second to click. It really felt like Liberty is an open door to fashion.

I loved the lights that were dangling from the fourth floor to the ground floor. It gave an urban feel to the historic space.

The building was designed to have three main wells and each one will have smaller surrounding rooms to give a homey feel to the visitors. The other well area had these beautiful crystal chandeliers.

The ground floor of accessories and stationery was fabulous and tempting was hard to escape the sparkle and all the little goodies. The third and fourth floors were decor, furniture, cookery and interior design accessories. I have a special blog post about that, but take a little sneak peek!