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British Lifestyle on Paris Street – „TIME OUT”

"British Gallery offers a sumptuous alternative to the banality of the interior design stores offer. When you enter, you do not find a shop, as you would expect, but an English apartment, reconstructed in detail, recreating the specific style and atmosphere. British Gallery seems to restore the connection with the aristocratic refinement of the inter-war tradition. It is designed on the Home & Gift principle, as a concept store that offers both indoor decorations and gifts. Each room has a story, from which you can take a piece home. The idea of the store belongs to Marius Plesea and to the famous designer and scenographer Irina Solomon. Rare thing, both are too cultivated people for compromising the personal tastes, directly declaring that they chose to bring what they like, not what sells. Note the prices, incredibly accessible. "

The Flavour of the Past in a House on Paris Street - „GANDUL”

"Once you enter, you will never want to leave - it's very simple. Someone said that he would like to live there at least 15 minutes a week. It's about a house, but it's much more than that. It is a house, a home, an oasis of beauty. Living in a house is in fact an act of culture, and the lifestyle need time to be earned. The way in which the home, each object from it - from furniture to decorations, clothes, porcelain and spectacular doll houses are arranged - are all imported from the UK, and recompose the typical English way of life. Everything is breathing comfort, relaxation, a good return to the past, "the only one who has substance," asAndrei Plesu, special guest of the evening, said in the opening of this place.”

A House Where You Can Buy Almost Everything - “DOMUS”

Wherever you stop to look in this house, you find something interesting, something that deservesto be admired, studied. Everything is chosen to surprise and delight: classic pieces of furniture, authentic English decorations, diaphanous and luminous objects, fine porcelain, nightgowns, linens, towels and handmade tablecloths, blankets of wool yarn, materials for bedspreads and curtains created by famous designers, classic English toys (doll houses, bears which can be heated in the microwave), baptism dresses, pyjamas and accessories for children, soaps and cosmetics –made of lanolin hundred percent natural, with a fragrance of complete cleaniness. The English Sherlock Holmes office atmosphere can be easily reconstituted with objects like collection ships and globes. Briefly, a spectacular universe in which you can enter anytime you want.

The Shop of the Week – Metropotam

Luxury (if in the interior design from our land ever existed) is lost for practicality and comfort, and the Victorian luxury is especially unknown to beautiful Romania, although we were somehow related to Queen Victoria through Queen Mary, her niece.
If you decided to redecorate the mansion inherited from your grandmother in an original style, retro and English, anIKEA variant (sic!) is a set from Forsyte Saga. No need to make a visit to the British Isles, just go to Paris. Paris Street, no. 14 A, behind the Palace (sic again) Victoria, at British Gallery.

British Gallery - British Style on Paris Street - Viva

Designed as a concept store, British Gallery whose name sounds like that of a museum, it is an original alternative to the decoration stores. If you are among art lovers and British style is among your favourites, British Gallery is the ideal place for shopping.

British lifestyle a Paris – Ziarul Financiar

„Do not be sparing of drapery and conversation. Neither of the cushions or of the good mood. Neither of the small tables or of the lampshades. Sofas and chairs should be comfortable, refined in the best English tradition."
So were urging the people from the recently open concept store, British Gallery ...on Paris Street. In a style as purely British as it can be, the house at number 14A does not look at all like a shop. At the entrance are a few steps, a large mirror, paintings and old photographs. The living room seems to gather the entire identity of England. Here are all the objects that sum up what is or was British culture a century ago, from the chairs with wooden sculptures to Mary Poppins, the Beatles, cups for five o’clock tea at, pipes, magnifying glasses, cigars, globes, models of ships from the colonial period, Victorian sofas covered by blankets made of wool and mohair.
The store is much like a thematic exhibition of interior design. It invites you to watch in silence, smell the scent of British history, carefully touching objects for fear of ruining their perfection.

Irina Soltuz’s blog

Passing on the Paris Street in the afternoon, I decided it's the perfect time to see myself what is it about. It is a real house. There is a living room with bags, tea, mugs, magazines, a desk with pencils, pens, clocks, a bedroom for children with clothes and dolls (I took my one month old niece a body), a bathroom with towels, shower gels, creams, a bedroom with pyjamas, and many other things you can buy for yourself or for others. It's a very charming place, with special products, of good quality and extremely nice. I will surely often go to buy gifts, or when I want something nice for me.

British Lifestyle on Paris Street – Gandul

English house, English garden, the elegant English style, with everything labelled "English" have been, for centuries, the guarantee of excellence, the sign of quality and good taste. Brits are a constant source of inspiration, and today everyone who has a certain sense of style and is willing to make a small financial effort can live according to the "British” style. The enthusiasm for everything that was called "British" began in the late nineteenth century. Since then the British say, referring to their lifestyle, "Show me how you live to tell you who you are."
At the same time, however, nowhere in this world this saying cannot be more misleading then...in the English homes. Lately, not the same happens in Bucharest. Although you are on Paris Street, you probably could not find a better place for this lovely story house from number 14A to celebrate, in a perfectly English atmosphere, the British lifestyle. Thanks to the owners, outside and inside, everything remainednice and natural, unaltered by the specific tastes of today’s enriched.
If you have not already come here, this is a place where for an hour you will feel on vacation in London and you will discover a part of the culture, tradition, customs and authenticityof the English lifestyle: Chesterfield sofas, Wedgwood and Powell & Craft porcelain, tea, calligraphy sets, models of ships, globes, breakfast tables and Victorian nightgowns, lamp shades and embroidered sheets.

Perfect Match –Bucharest Nightlife

"This is my house and I made it available to beauty. It's not just a business; it is a business with cultural accents. Each room has the functionality of an English room " said Marius Plesea, adding that he likes to go to fairs, to gather beautiful things.
Everything is exposed, is not related to a trend, but has style and draws attention like a discreet fragrance. To speak about "the time of reflection" upon the style in which we want to live, was invited Andrei Plesu - "the upstairs neighbour." "I like more and more the past. Not the immediate past, but people who enjoy the past. The past is the only time out of the three that we know that has a quality: it has perfume. The future is autopia, an abstraction, and the present is flashing. The past is substantial. I like to know people who know how to contemplate and to make the past alive", Andrei Plesu said.

Fuss, finery and style - Insight

Out of the decorator-client relationship not only a beautiful friendship was born, but also the house that became agallery dedicated to the thirst for good taste. It all started when Marius Plesea needed the talent and intuition of a decorator, for his home in Ploiesti. The artist he chose was a well-known designer, Irina Solomon. She discovered the ideal formula to transform his Romanian house into a space impregnatedwith the British scent, so familiar to the owner. From there was only one step far until, in the Bucharest scenery, the ground floor of a Neo-Romanian mansion was transformed into an... English house, with its specific rituals and moments, a house where everything is for sale.
Hall, living room, dinning room, study and library, bedroom, nursery, bathroom ... As many rooms, as many stories that reconstruct a family atmosphere and as many products or items waiting to be seen, chosen, gifted: from the Chesterfield leather sofas to Wedgwood porcelain, from the fine nightgowns to the small scented soaps in the form of muffins, from the lavender sachets to the Gisela Graham decorations, the lamps or the spectacular umbrellas UK Marque, signed by designers such as Frank Asher, Jean-Paul Gaultier or Chantal Thomas.

Interview with Marius Plesea - former regional director of operations of UPC and the current owner of British Gallery

After leaving the UPC in late 2007, Marius Plesea remained in the business environment engaging and investing "in a hobby, a project I support with great pleasure," which is British Gallery.
"There is not only a retail, the project has a cultural dimension and this is very important to me."
"It's about tradition, a refined world, and a world of rules. There are many things that are built around the concept of British".

Marius Plesea ... In British style - Business Store

Plesea left in late 2007 from UPC. "I opened the British Gallery in November 2007, I invested 300,000 Euros and although I am sure that it will become a brand, I currently do not expect profit, I just want to keep this business as a hobby."
The idea for the British Gallery (St. Paris, No. 14 A) came from the frequent trips (about five times a year) of the two spouses in England, especially in Lancaster, where Carmen Plesea studied linguistics for four years and obtained his PHD in "Humour". "At one point, we were searching, for the house in which we live now, for Chesterfield sofas and curtains and wandered the markets in Lancaster which are populated by many manufacturers of various British style objects."