For years, we have built and traded our own brands at markets across London, carrying the same excitement into every season. Dear Us London is the first place where we can share more than what we sell: how we see the world, and what we choose to hold dear.

We believe in old, deep values. In an age of fast everything, we would rather move slowly — and mean it.

A gift finds its worth in the ritual of giving: the thought, the feeling, the time and care of the person who gives it. It might be two lines written straight from the heart and tucked inside the package. A playful kiss mark. A trace of scent. Something of you, travelling to someone else.

Sometimes it is what we never said to the people who matter most. Placed inside a gift, it can speak more gently — and more honestly — than we ever could. Some words were never meant to be spoken at all. Only sealed.

So we chose modern jewellery that carries traces and feelings of the past, given in a way that never goes out of date: wrapped with care and closed with wax. This Christmas, our first little stall comes to life at St Katharine Docks.