The White Company

The White Company London is an upmarket seller of homewear, gifts, nightwear, clothing, bath and body, scents and selective furniture. It also caters to children and babies with beautiful gifts, clothes, toys and room accessories and bedding. If you simply can't choose, you can send someone boxed gift vouchers so they can select at leisure. They have around 27 stores and concessions around the country, so there's not one on every corner, but that's quite nice. They do have brochures and a website, and you can request your item to be gift wrapped. Their style is very clean and..... white! No loud colours here, they really live up to their name. ...  Read the complete review

One of the disadvantages of living in a village near a small country town is that the sort of shop that sells basic bedding and robust towels tends to be quite a treck away. True, there is a shop which sells beautiful linen and towels but it's all a bit delicate and pretty-pretty for our lifestyle. I used to make an annual trip into Leeds before I discovered The White Company. I first noticed them in 1994 when I found one of their catalogues enclosed with some shirts that I'd ordered for my husband from Charles Tyrwhytt. The lady who founded The White Company is the wife of the founder of the shirt company. There, in the catalogue, were the plain ...  Read the complete review

The White Company is a very special mail order company. I say special because it is one of my favourite. Born from a gem of an idea and similar in many ways to the start of companies like Innocent Smoothies. Its founder Chrissie Rucker started the company in 1993 when a gap in the market was noted. Family members had found difficulty buying good quality bed linen and towels and so their mail order business was born. Chrissie's husband Nick Wheeler runs the mail order business Charles Tyrwhitt shirts. From these early days with orders being dispatched from home and taken to the Post Office in the back of the founder's Mini- Metro when they were between ...  Read the complete review

Appalling customer service, slow delivery and lack of communication means I will not be ordering from The White Company again. I placed a telephone order for a gift voucher as a birthday gift. I allowed much more than the 5 working days quoted for delivery, in order for the voucher to arrive in time for my neice's birthday. Over 4 weeks later and several attempts to track the voucher, it arrived in the post. No apology, no communication between customer service representatives and no concrete reason for the delay other than "technical difficulties". How technical and difficult must it be to print and post a piece of paper and put it in their ...  Read the complete review

The White Company have stores across the UK- see the following link to find the nearest one to you: http://www.thewhitecompany.com/content.aspx?DepGrpCode=HOM&CntCode=help_shops They also have a website which as far I as I have seen has everything on there that you can get in store. See http://www.thewhitecompany.com/. Both sell a mixture of homewares including bed linen and home accerssories e.g. frames, vases, home fragrances as well as clothing e.g. cashmere jumpers, cotton tees. The quality of the products is of a really good standard but you definately pay for it. A good example is the Hampton chest of drawers which retail at £495, a similar ...  Read the complete review