Who is Karlsson

Karlsson started in 2006.
We named the company after my mother’s maiden name.

We started out wanting to bring beautiful, useful, simple design to East Anglia.

I always wanted to know why there wasn’t a great design shop in East Anglia, and that if I wanted something, I would travel to other parts of the country to buy them; so I decided to open a shop. A crazy idea maybe, and after searching for a great location we decided on our Georgian building.

Every day people walk into this shop and leave with happiness. Even if they can’t find what they are looking for, we try to help them find it elsewhere.
It has always seemed so obvious, to wrap everything for free. It takes so little time on our part, and it saves our customers far more time then it takes, plus it is a nice ting to do and our wrapping does look beautiful.

We buy from over 25 companies, and as such we can often order in for customers, items that we do not usually stock.

It’s not about how many things you own, or where they come from, but the pleasure they give you. Finding the perfect gift that you wish you could keep for yourself, or the perfect item you never knew of, until you came in and found it at Karlsson; Beautiful, useful, simple.