5 stores · curated ORBIS register
Stafford Street / Lothian Road / Morningside Road / Online
Paper Tiger buys from both established and emerging Edinburgh and UK artists, giving Scottish work a dedicated place across its shops. City-themed gifts range from locally made pieces to cards and wrap printed with Edinburgh imagery.
Best for Gifts, homeware, toys, jewellery and edible treats made by Scottish designers
West End, Glasgow
A shop carrying Nordic and British textiles, glassware, fragrance, plants, books, and locally knitted toys. Owner Karen Harvey selects the shop’s Nordic and British brands.
Best for Nordic and British textiles, glassware
Solaris Dutamas
Carousel is a vintage London-style toy shop at Publika Shopping Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. Giant window displays and life-sized Nutcracker figures front a stock of model airplanes, rocking horses, and toy soldiers.
Best for Vintage London-style toy displays — model airplanes, rocking horses, toy soldiers
Carousel occupies a corner of Publika Shopping Gallery in Kuala Lumpur dressed like a London toy shop from an earlier decade: giant window displays anchor the storefront, with a pair of life-sized Nutcracker figures greeting shoppers at the entrance against a red-and-white color scheme. Inside, the stock leans deliberately old-fashioned rather than chasing whatever's trending in mainstream toy chains, with model airplanes, jack-in-the-box toys, rocking horses, and ranks of toy soldiers sitting alongside more contemporary arts-and-crafts sets, dolls, and jigsaw puzzles. A candy cart near the entrance stocks gourmet treats from Fête Artisan Marshmallow, a local confectioner, giving the shop a secondary pull for browsers who aren't there for toys at all. The approach reads as curated nostalgia rather than a discount toy warehouse: harder-to-find items like specific Nutcracker figures and Schleich animal figurines show up in customer accounts of the shop more often than mass-market plastic. Carousel keeps daily hours, open from 10am to 9pm, and sits on Level G3 of Publika alongside the mall's other specialty retailers. For parents or collectors looking for toys with some visual theatre built into the shopping experience itself, rather than a big-box aisle, Carousel is built specifically around that kind of browsing.
Castle Hill, Bridge Street area
Ark is an independent gift shop stocking homeware, cards, jewellery, candles and children's toys from small design brands. The store curates colourful British and European makers for everyday and occasion gifts.
Best for Design-led gifts and homeware
St Ives / United Kingdom
Hudson on Fore Street offers hand-selected homeware and gifts, along with toys and stationery.
Best for Homeware, gifts and toys
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