All Bottled Up

Our favourite find this week has got to be the green vintage Givaudan glass perfume bottles. A famous Swiss fragrance company which traces its roots back to 1796(!!), the bottles still have perfume in them! They have an office in Singapore too! Anyone from Givaduan out there? 🙂

We love old glass bottles, and these will make a fine pairing next to vintage amber, cobalt blue and clear ones. Turn them (or any bottle) into oil/kerosene lamps with these wicks we just got in, made from cotton and recycled metal.

Doctor Doctor – Medical hall bottles

Traditional Chinese medical halls are really interesting places – unfortunately there are less of them around now, and the numbers are dwindling year on year.

They knew the value of well-displayed goods and precious herbs would go into uniform glass jars that made them look important and more importantly expensive!

You can do the same for your own precious items. Keep them safe but show them off  in these heavy-duty vintage medical hall glass jars with lids.

Love the golden hue of these old amber-glass bottles with stopper.

And the mesmerising deep blue of these really old medicine bottles against the sunlight.