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Award-winning store Velvet launches new furniture website
Velvet is launching its new website on the back of the huge success of its furniture store on Bond Street. Velvet was set up in Brighton nearly seven years ago by Emma and Nick Harrop and Iris Draper. They started with gifts and accessories and over the years have expanded to three shops in Brighton and Hove with a very hard-working team of 20. On George Street in Hove and Bond Street, Brighton there are Velvet gift and clothes stores. Bond Street is also home to the furniture store.
The Velvet furniture store sells a huge range of furniture, lighting, mirrors, home accessories and gifts from French chateaustyle, art deco, contemporary, shabby chic, painted, boudoir, funky and modern to mirrored and Venetian, all at accessible prices.
Customers travel from all over the country to visit because of the store’s very competitive pricing and they have lots of celebrity customers, from actors and politicians to former Big Brother housemates and pop stars.
Velvet has just won the prestigious ‘Best Independent Retailer’ award at the Brighton and Hove Business Awards for its three stores. This is a huge accolade as Brighton is now one of the busiest shopping areas in the UK. Velvet won because it has really pushed the boundaries of retail excellence, with new stock arriving daily, beautiful displays, ‘wow factor’ windows and shop layouts, a huge mix of gorgeous products appealing to all ages and tastes, excellent customer service and a loyal following of customers.
There is also a huge range of mirrors, from French to ornate to modern and from small to very large as well as hundreds of different lights, ranging from modern to classic chandeliers, funky lights and lamps. They also sell beautiful gifts and home accessories – everything from frames to doormats to signs to over 150 different styles of glass, ceramic and metal door knobs and hooks.
Velvet are a family business who really care about their staff and customers. Staff are very friendly, always offering plenty of advice and suggestions to customers if they want it (but NO pushy sales). The staff enjoy working there and that gives the shops a lovely atmosphere. They voted Velvet ‘The Best Place To Work In Brighton’ no less!
The buying team spend a great deal of time sourcing new original products from all over the world and from hundreds of different suppliers. They will be updating their website on a regular basis with new stock. If you can’t find what you are looking for in the shops or on the website call or email, as they may well be able to find it from their hundreds of suppliers.
Velvet, 27 and 29 Bond Street, Brighton and 10 George Street, Hove. For more information call 01273 326322, email info@velvetstore.co.uk
Visit www.velvetstore.co.uk
