The Gentlewoman Magazine | Issue 29
The Gentlewoman is a biannual magazine that celebrates modern women of style and purpose. Featuring ambitious journalism and photography of the highest quality, it showcases inspirational women through its distinctive combination of glamour, personality and warmth.
Issue 29
Issue 29 has on its cover the comedy genius Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who holds the record for most Emmy wins in an acting role.The Veep supremo, Seinfeld star, Marvel mainstay and now chart-topping podcaster talks up a storm with writer Seb Emina.
Alongside Julia, the Convenience Store Woman author Sayaka Murata explains why her bestselling books are fish tanks, the Alabama shaker and ace songwriter Brittany Howard is plotting her comeback in Nashville, and the film star Geena Davis bestows two decades of weapons-grade research into on-screen representation.
Fashion-wise, the forecast is scorchio, with modish propositions – from high-altitude Celine to low-slung summer leather – styled and photographed by the leading image makers of the day. Plus: probing Q&As with the girl group Bananarama, the hiking collective Athene Club, the casting director Julia Lange, the chef Angela Hartnett, Modern Details for good living and an instructive meditation on the art of solo travel. Bon voyage, sisters!
Bellwoods Lifestyle Store brings together a collection of planet friendly, design-led and cool things for you, your home and your life.
There's nothing better than being able to see and touch beautiful objects and our bricks and mortar shop on the North East Coast of England has been designed as a calm space filled with positivity and joy in mind.
We try to emulate this feeling into our website too. Each maker and item in the shop has a modern, well-made design with strong ethical credentials and is selected to feel like it belongs next to the other.
We work with well-known brands such as Bloomingville, Broste Copenhagen, The Poster Club, OYOY Living Design and Aykasa, as well as independent designers from the UK and around the world.
We are working to become plastic free and waste free and re-use everything we can to reduce our impact on the environment - we plant a tree with every online order through ecologi. We're pro-active in supporting our local community too, having raised money for a different charity each month (sometimes we donate to two a month!) We're a drop off point for the East End Women Food Bank and host monthly pop up shops with local, independent makers, giving them a physical retail space and shop window to showcase their work and connect with a new audience.
Bellwoods is independently owned and operated by Nathalie, a former retail manager and visual merchandiser.
"I (Nathalie) spent most of my 20s living in Toronto. While I was there, I worked in merchandising and operation management for big retail brands like Urban Outfitters, and small independent shops too. I got so inspired by the vibrant indie shop scene in the city, and dreamt of having my own shop - it’s actually probably the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.
I finally made it happen in a furlough “now or never” moment in 2020, and I started a shop on my spare room shelves. I wanted the shop to be about Lifestyle - offering design-led and planet friendly things for you, your home, and you life. Things from brands you know and love, and from designers you’re yet to know and love.
Bellwoods Lifestyle Store is affectionately named after Trinity Bellwoods Park in the centre of Toronto, where I spent so many summer days. I wanted to bring a bit of my inspiration and experience to our peachy haven by the sea in Whitley Bay.
We love our home, being surrounded by so many other small businesses and a wonderful community. Whitley Bay is really a special place"
Visit us at 94 Park View, Whitley Bay, NE26 3QL 7 days a week (please check our social media pages for any unforeseen closures) or select something you love at Bellwoods Online.
