Our latest window display project was inspired by historical gun purchase account ledgers that are currently housed inside the Purdey & Sons store. One of ledgers features a record of Charles Darwin purchasing guns for his expeditions!

We recreated the accounts ledgers by fabricating bookshelves populated with old world book props that we made by using wood with routed edges to give the effect of the curved edge of old books, we dye coloured canvasses that were stretched over the books and finished with printed graphic ledger labels.

The book props displayed off the shelves featured a marbling effect from the paper pages when closed, we took the pattern from the marbling effect and printed it on backgrounds to mirror the book patterns, on the shop front display.

Purdey and Sons reopen next week as we move towards the new normal and away from full lockdown.