L.A.R. studio is a home decor studio based in Sussex, best known for its hand-beaded coasters set with semi-precious stones. Every piece is either made in small batches or made to order, which gives each one, and the home it ends up in, a distinct, one-of-a-kind character.

L.A.R Studio

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Beaded Coaster- Plum Blossom Jasper

Raffia - Window Panel

Beaded Coaster - White Jade

Beaded Coaster - Rose Quartz

Beaded Coaster - Red Quartzite

Beaded Coaster - Dalmatian Jasper

Beaded Coaster - Butter Jade

Beaded Coaster - Blue Amazonite

Beaded Coaster - Apache Jasper

For the one who loves a long bath, a proper cup of tea and a night in, these are gifts under £50 that still feel special. There’s a harlequin hot water bottle by CHICKPEA for the friend who’s still holding out on the heating, a porcelain shell soap dish by Minnie-Mae Studio for the bathroom shelf, and the Café Cecilia cookbook from Phaidon for the one who’d happily spend all weekend cooking.
Each one is picked with a particular person in mind, the kind who likes nice things and actually uses them. Gift something lovely this Christmas.

Gifting Under £50

Custard yellow and woven work because neither is trying to outshine the other. Similar in warmth, different in texture, they keep the eye moving. Custard brings the colour, woven brings the grain. Together they feel less like a pairing and more like a season, sunlit whatever the weather.

Texture Pairings: Custard Yellow & Woven

A residency in Highbury, two Sunday roasts (one with an end date), a wine bar in a bank vault, a new pizzeria in Bermondsey, khao soi in Soho, a toastie worth crossing the park for, and a bottle for the nights you'd rather stay in.
The clocks go back on 25th October. Dinner starts to feel like the main event again, and the evenings need somewhere to go. These are the tables we'd book this autumn, whether it's a third date or your three-hundredth.

Where to Book for Autumn Dates in London

Weddings are feeling less traditional and far more personal. Couples are moving away from polished perfection in favour of atmosphere, individuality and details that feel layered with meaning. Think candlelight over floral installations, initials over themes and tables that borrow from intimate dinner parties rather than classic receptions. The modern wedding is becoming an exercise in world-building, where every detail, from the lapel to the place setting, feels curated.

Autumn/Winter Wedding Trend Report

Eleanor is Glassette's Buying and Brand Acquisition Manager - the person who sources new homeware and lifestyle brands for the platform, shapes the ranges, and spots what's worth paying attention to before most people have clocked it. Every month, she shares the products she can't stop thinking about, the trends quietly moving into interiors, and honest recommendations she'd genuinely spend her own money on.

September Product Diaries

The supper club sits somewhere between a dinner party and a restaurant. You eat what you're given, at a time someone else has decided, usually next to people you've never met. What you get in return is a menu nobody had to make commercially viable: a chef testing an idea, a format that would collapse across a full service, food that arrives in the middle of the table because there's no other sensible way to serve it.
The 11 below run out of home kitchens, a decommissioned Victoria line carriage, a 200-year-old cotton mill on the River Goyt and a lakeside restaurant in the Cotswolds. Some seat 32 people four times a year. Some are built on the assumption that you're coming alone. Prices start around £30 and go to £140, and the only constant is that someone else has decided what you're eating.

The UK's Best Supper Clubs

The café is the one part of a museum nobody was obliged to make beautiful. It exists because people get tired, and for a century most institutions treated it accordingly. A counter by the cloakroom, a tray, a scone under plastic. The ones worth crossing a city for were built on the opposite assumption: that the room where you stop should be as considered as the rooms you came to see. Here are 8 of the most beautiful.

8 of the World's Most Beautiful Museum Cafés

The pharmacy is an unlikely candidate for great interiors. It is a shop that exists to hand over paracetamol. And yet for several centuries it was where a town put its money: the ceramics were commissioned, the cabinetry was made to measure, the ceiling was painted with allegories of healing by someone who had also done a church.
Then the twentieth century arrived with strip lighting. What follows survived it.

9 of the World's Most Beautiful Pharmacies

Our weekly Nice Things Edit is a curated Monday round-up of what we’re loving right now. From our favourite pieces on Glassette to a recipe, a watch, a read, a place to visit, a restaurant, and a gift worth bookmarking.
Each week, every member of the Glassette team shares their current favourites, whether that’s new arrivals, pieces we’ve spotted trending, or timeless finds we can’t stop thinking about. Think of it as a weekly dose of joy, discovery, and design inspiration, handpicked by the Glassette team.

Nice Things This Week

Our Autumn 2026 trend report is here. We've been watching the things gathering momentum across interiors, homeware and food that haven't made headlines yet, but will.

Glassette 2026 Autumn Trend Report

A lot of what inspired me this week happened around Borough.
A Turkish-Cypriot meyhane on the top floor of a pub, papered wall to wall in someone else's family photographs. A cocktail bar five minutes downhill from it, building drinks out of the market below. A Parisian burger shop in Shoreditch with four things on the menu and a queue that doesn't seem to mind.
But the one I keep thinking about is the Barbican, where every August they put a screen up on the Sculpture Court and let a few hundred people watch films on a concrete terrace in the middle of the City. 
So that's the week - two restaurants, a bar, a film season, a museum and three people whose work I've been sitting with. Here's the eight.

8 Things That Inspired Me This Week

The second in our neighbourhood guide series - this time our Head of Creative Anna on Highbury.
​I walk everywhere. That's the whole thing, really. I'll add twenty minutes to a journey to avoid going underground, and in Highbury I almost never have to - the park, the high street, the good pubs, the shops I actually use, all of it is on foot from my front door.
It helps that there's genuinely somewhere to walk to. I'd say the best restaurants and pubs in London are within a mile of here, which I know sounds like the kind of thing everyone says about their own postcode, but I'll stand behind it.
Everything below are places I'd actually go.

My Neighbourhood with Glassette Head of Creative Anna Hale

Our Monthly What’s On is a curated round-up of the exhibitions, restaurant openings, residencies and gigs we’re making plans for. From gallery shows and design fairs to new tables worth booking, cultural moments to catch, and the under-the-radar events you’ll wish you’d heard about sooner.
Think of it as your cultural compass for the month ahead: a considered edit of art, food, music and design, chosen to inspire weekends well spent.

What's On In August

A no-booze bar cart is a good excuse to rethink the drinks trolley, starting with what sits on it rather than what's usually poured from it. Glassware, trays and carafes have just as much to contribute as the drinks themselves, and alcohol-free options are worth giving a little space of their own. Here's how to get the set-up right, from choosing the cart to the glasses and bottles that make the cut.