Ben Pentreath – architect and shopkeeper

  When an architect opens an interiors shop you expect minimalist style with 20th century design classics.  In contrast, Ben Pentreath's shops, online and bricks & mortar in literary Bloomsbury, look like they stock the artefacts and possessions of a collector.  The result is a shop that looks different from many contemporary interiors retailers and might remind visitors of  the Victorians who travelled the world to bring home curiosities and