Hello. Welcome To Our World.
Pedlars belongs to us... Charlie and Caroline Gladstone.
who are we?
We live at Glen Dye in Kincardineshire, Scotland. This is where we have our offices and where we test and photograph everything we sell. We also live in London and France, and we have a farm in Wales where you’ll find our Hawarden Estate Farm Shop and pub, The Glynne Arms. We have six children. We also have four dogs, lots of horses and ponies and three old, but much-loved, chickens.
where is Pedlars?
Pedlars Towers is in a Victorian Stable block, just behind our house at Glen Dye. On cold winter nights, Pedlars shares the stables with our horses. This is where all of Pedlars’ customer services happen; where we take ‘phone calls, download orders, pack vintage items for despatch to customers and deal with all press requests.
Pedlars Central is on our farm in North Wales, close to Chester, in a lovely set of Georgian buildings. This is where all orders are packed for despatch to customers and where all products are shipped to our shops. It’s proper hive of activity.
Ah, yes, we have shops too, lovely shops. The first one to open is on Talbot Road, in Notting Hill, just off Portobello Road. We then opened a small corner in our Farm Shop in Wales, which sells mainly kitchen stuff, with a few home wares and gifts thrown into the mix. Then came our shop-within-a-shop in Selfridges in Birmingham and then London. And we just opened our third one in November in Manchester's amazing Trafford Centre.
how do we choose the stuff we sell?
Well, we’re constantly on the lookout for great stuff. We travel from New York to Paris to Birmingham to Milan and way beyond searching. It’s a hobby as much as a job. And so we are just as likely to spy something great when we are on holiday, or looking at blogs or reading magazines. And when we spy something we like we track it down and ask the people that make it if we can sell it. Or we meet interesting people and ask them to make stuff for us.
The point is that we only sell stuff that we love, stuff that we have tested and that works. There is no grey area of product at Pedlars… nothing that is simply okay. It’s either great and we sell it, or it’s not and we don’t. End of story. That’s why we say we sell ‘stuff we love that you’ll love too’.
Love from
Charlie and Caroline Gladstone x