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City Sights
Wolfram Löhr
Lovingly crafted,
Take a tour around Brighton’s ancient
faintly nostalgic
and modern buldings and public art
leatherwork, from
characterful shoes
Brighton’s buildings
new developments
to sturdy satchels,
take you on a magical
around Jubilee Square.
distinctive cuffs and
history tour from the
The city’s religious
belts and even a travel
moment you pull into
heritage provides rich
chess set. Non-leather
the grandly arching
architectural pickings,
items for the tasteful
Victorian railway
from the towering
gent include
station to the rows of
gothic revivalism of St
handkerchiefs and
Regency town houses.
Peter’s Church to the
Italian umbrellas.
Modernism gets a look-
golden columns of the
28 York Place,
in via Embassy Court,
ornate Middle Street
BN1 4GU
a Grade II listed
Synagogue.
(01273 722028)
concrete
Open-air art
apartment
ranges from
block. Art
commiss-
Vegetarian Shoes
deco rules
ioned
Robin Webb’s hippy
at Saltdean
sculpture
mecca now exports
Lido, while
(Bruce
its products all over
you can’t miss
Williams’s
the world. His shop
the high-rise
seafront ‘Kiss
carefully sources and
monument to ’60s
Wall’) to the originally
sells everything from
design, Sussex
uninvited but now
sandals to hiking boots,
Heights. More recent
treasured graffiti art by
all made without a single
additions include the
Banksy, whose ‘Kissing
scrap of leather.
Jubilee Library, its eco-
Coppers’ (above) on
12 Gardner St, BN1 1UP
friendly glass frontage
Trafalgar Street is
(01273 685685)
the impetus for chic
shielded under Perspex.
Hove
Embassy Court
City Books
Fantastic, cosy
independent bookshop
with a lively local-interest
section and its own
independent-store loyalty
card! City Books also
organises author events,
often with major writers,
at the nearby Old Market.
23 Western Rd, BN3 1AF
(01273 725306)
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