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The 5 Things
The restaurant, the escape, the indulgence - and two more things that keep finding their way into collections.
Some things have a way of coming back.
Across different collections, different cities and entirely different tastes, the same desires surface again and again. Not identical objects, necessarily, but the same five impulses.
Here are the five we noticed.
The restaurant you've been meaning to try
The table you have mentally booked three times already.
Most saved · Brutto, Farringdon
Bistecca alla fiorentina and the pici cacio e pepe
A Florentine trattoria off Clerkenwell Green. Turns up in four collections this season, always with the same note attached: order the pici, and book early.
About £40 a head
The thing you'd never buy yourself
An extravagance with just enough permanence to justify it.
Cumbria Crystal
Grasmere decanter and tumblers, hand-cut
Mouth-blown in Ulverston, cut by hand. Sits in collections for months precisely because nobody quite talks themselves into buying it.
£390
The place everyone wants to go
A saved place becomes a date, then a flight, then the story you keep telling.
Vora · Santorini
Five cave suites, one terrace, the whole caldera
Saved by people who have never met each other. Two nights minimum, and everybody books the third.
From £310 a night
The beauty thing that actually works
The recommendation passed quietly between people whose judgement you trust.
Augustinus Bader
The Rich Cream, 50ml
The one people re-buy rather than replace. Heavy enough for winter, and the only jar that shows up in three collections at once.
£230
“I've seen this in three different collections.”
The wild card
The highly specific object that makes a collection unmistakably personal.
From one collection only
Niche Zero single-dose grinder, in walnut
Nobody else has saved it. She has opened it eleven times. This is the item that tells you who the collection belongs to.
£645
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