ABOUT US

We bring together original design, authentic products and inspiring individuality from around the world to create a vibrant, uplifting and magical shopping experience, empowering people to live colourfully, think globally, and have the confidence to stand out, be different and be unique.

OUR STORY

When Razzberry Bazaar opened its doors in July 1986, the little coastal village of Tynemouth hadn’t seen anything quite like it. Baskets of flowers festooned the pavement and coloured glass gleamed in the window, while inside hand-embroidered textiles and exotic Indonesian wood carvings jostled for space in antique dressers, gems and silver jewellery sparkling like treasure amid pine chests of Indian cottons and Nepalese wool jackets. A world away from the other stuffy and staid establishments, this unique, eccentric emporium blew a ‘razzberry’ to conventional style and shopping – and still does, three decades later.

A painter and textile design graduate, founder Linda Rana had begun working in stained glass when she moved here with her Nepalese husband and young family in the early 1980s, and it was on the burgeoning local craft circuit that she met fellow makers and creatives who would then encourage her to open her first small shop. Over the next thirty years, Razzberry Bazaar became a beacon for inspiring individuality, with its eclectic mix of creatively colourful clothing, accessories, gifts and homeware from around the world and Linda’s signature colour-blocked displays. Customers from across the country were drawn by the unique Razzberry Bazaar mail order clothing line, inspired by flowing, Eastern shapes and produced entirely in-house.

Linda’s daughter Elise – a former travel writer, musician and events promoter – is now continuing her mum’s colourful legacy and bringing to it her own passions. She continues to seek out new, creative makers and designers while strengthening relationships with the UK’s most respected ethical suppliers and the small artisan producers they support in the developing world.

Linda and Elise, 1990