LUXE City Guides - Melbourne

High St. / Armadale

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If interiors are your cuppa, you may need spare knix doing this itin, but bear in mind many stores close on Sundays. Kickstart with a coffee at Coin Laundry Café at 61 Armadale St. (opp. Armadale Station) / 9500 1888. Exit left up Cheel St., zip left onto High St., then cross to #877 Graham Geddes( at #899 from end 2014) (see Stand. Stores), a jaw-dropping onestop antiquitie­s emporium. Exit left for Fiorina Jewellery at #897 / 9509 8883 / with luxe pieces peppered with coins, crosses n’ charms. Shoot back over the railway to striking #909a Scott Livesey Galleries / 9824 7770 / with Aboriginal and mod art. Cross High St. and dip right down Morey St. for artisanal Mex/Med homewares at #19 Market Import / 9500 0764. Exit right and retrace to High St. via Kingsway and Kings Arcade. Turn right on High and trawl this side of the street first. Get Euro fash, h/ware and beauty booty at Durance at #1022 / 9500 2227, then sink teeth into #1030 Phillippa’s / 9576 2020 / buns and deli treats. At #1041 Ginger & Smart / 9824 8268 / racks slick gal garb, and at #1048 Sydney star Josh Goot’s / 9500 9097 / only Melb flagship is an archi-raw homage to edgy style (w). Ladies who lunch love #1094 Cooper and Milla’s / 9500 8127 / for salads and waistbusti­ng cakes, then cross over and head left back down High St., grazing on Oz fash along the way incl. urbane #1067 Camilla and Marc / 9804 3111, graphic Lee Mathews at #1059 / 9822 8174, and boho #1039 Megan Park / 9822 4092.

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