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TUNBRIDGE WELLS BUSINESS MAGAZINE AUGUST 2024
Vintage appeal Alexander Pushkin is taking his business to the next level courtesy of launching an online auction house and revealing a slight change in brand identity. Here he tells Eileen Leahy more about his future vision for the wonderful world of vintage collectibles…
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lexander and his wife Olga Pushkin established their eponymous business in 2012 in London and in 2021 opened their first customer-facing store here in Tunbridge Wells. Located on the corner of Castle Street and the High Street, the popular shop sells a covetable collection of curios and antiques that include period silverware from all over the world, statement vintage furniture, original James Bond prints, Murano glassware and preloved Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton fashion pieces. But, as Alexander tells me when we sit down to chat, now is the time for a little bit of a change. The first thing I noticed on arrival is that the emporium’s smart, jet-black and gold liveried shop front now just boasts the name ‘Pushkin’s’. So the first thing I ask Alexander is why he has dropped the ‘antiques’ from his branding. “Well my wife Olga and I felt we needed to take the company to a new to new
level,” he explains. “I'm not the sort of person that sits around and stagnates. I'm always evolving and keen to try something new. We wanted to do something a little bit different and because I have a few other businesses it made sense to have all of
them under one Pushkin’s umbrella,” says Alexander. “And anyway, all of our customers referred to us as Pushkin’s and never Pushkin’s Antiques so it made sense to drop the antiques bit.” The next bit of news is that Alexander
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