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PICK58 The Times Magazine- £159, Niwaki (thenewtinsomerset.com). 7. £65, Opinel (conranshop.co.uk). 8. £15 for set, Kikkerland (sugru.com).
9. £76, niwaki.com. 10. £65 for set, Opinel (conranshop.co.uk). - £250, Workaday (conranshop.co.uk). 12. £21.33 for two, habitat.co.uk. 13. £71, oyoylivingdesign.co.uk.
- £36, matildagoad.com. 15. £180 for two, Baloo (made.com).
- £215, toa.st. 17. £319, Oliver Spencer x Niwaki (oliverspencer.com). 18. £55, patagonia.com. 19. £65, toa.st.
- £249, Oliver Spencer x Niwaki (oliverspencer.com).
6 7 891016 17 18 19 20ntil recently, if you’d
spotted a fashionable
throng heading along
London’s Chiltern Street
you’d have assumed they
were en route to the
Chiltern Firehouse, the
celebrity haunt that’s a favourite
for afterparties and pap shots.
Today the same crowd are actually
heading instead to a tiny shop
at No 38 called Niwaki. This
isn’t the latest destination for
overpriced sashimi; it’s where you
go to buy secateurs, pruning saws
and tripod ladders.
This Japanese-inspired
gardening tools and accessories
brand, founded by husband and
wife Jake and Keiko Hobson,
opened last autumn and has
gained a cult following. Niwaki’s
garden shears, bonsai branch
cutters and forged trowels- made in small batches by
artisan craftsmen in Japan - sometimes have the kind of
waiting lists you usually see
at a Chanel store.
A new generation has swapped
clubs for trugs. So much so that
designer Oliver Spencer, famous
for his menswear shows with DJ
sets by Idris Elba, has a collection
with Niwaki of tool-carrying
gardening clothes such as indigo-
dyed chore jackets with multiple
patch pockets and trousers with
reinforced knee patches. The
clothes were unveiled in April at
a garden centre in Oxfordshire.
Meanwhile, Mr Porter now
sells gardening sets that come in
off-white canvas totes by a brand
called Japan Best (£675).
Generation G (gardening
newbies) have a slew of pastoral
poster boys and girls who have
become social media stars
garnering thousands of followers
and likes for pictures that don’t
involve posing in swimsuits.
Rather, they’re clutching
award-winning marrows.
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- £33, maisonsdumonde.com. 2. £59, made.com. 3. £34.50, oliverbonas.com. 4. £38, londonworks.com.
5. £25, Burgon & Ball (arket.com).
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