Alsolike

10/01/2026

Our store at 16 Chance Street is now closed.

Details regarding our reopening time and new location will be announced on our website and social media channels in due course.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

06/12/2025

Alsolike’s last trading day in this space will be 24 December. After that, we’ll be using the remaining time to pack down and prepare for our temporary closure.

If there’s something you’ve been meaning to pick up or a piece you’ve had your eye on, December is the best time to visit ,almost all brands are currently 50% off, our biggest clearance in three years.

This isn’t a goodbye, just a pause and we’d love to see you again before we close this chapter.

20/11/2025

Tongji University × Art & Design Press Chinese Characters Exhibition
Exhibition Title: HANZI OF THE WEST, LETTERS OF THE EAST
Dates: 19–26 November 2025
Organisers: Tongji University, Art & Design Press
Supporters: Cultural Section of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the UK, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, ALSOLIKE Gallery, Guan Guan Art Space
Venue: Alsolike Gallery, 16 Chance St, London E2 7JB

With the strong support of the Cultural and Engineering Sections of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, we successfully held the exhibition The Evolution of Chinese Characters in April 2024 at the former site of the Royal Mint in London. As a key event of the United Nations Chinese Language Day programme, the exhibition offered an in-depth presentation of the origins and development of Chinese characters, their technological evolution, and cultural expression. It was accompanied by lectures and interactive workshops, attracting widespread attention and positive feedback from both Chinese and British audiences. The exhibition welcomed more than 2,000 visitors and received coverage from major media outlets such as Xinhua News Agency and China Daily, achieving strong communication impact.

To further enhance cultural exchange between China and the UK, we will host the 2025 London Chinese Characters Exhibition at ALSOLIKE Gallery from 19 to 26 November 2025. Supported by the Chinese Embassy in the UK and co-organised by Tongji University and Art & Design Press, the exhibition has been selected as part of Shanghai’s “International Communication of Chinese Culture” programme.

The exhibition centres on the beauty and expressive power of Chinese characters, showcasing how they appear in daily life and in the contexts of China–UK cultural exchange. Through three sections—Opening China, Renewing Hanzi, and Stories of Chinese–English Characters in Jewellery—the exhibition presents stories rooted in Chinese culture and explores the connections between China and the UK through the lens of written language.

08/10/2025

Good news — almost all brands in-store are now 50% off, our biggest clearance since opening!
The not-so-good news — in three months, we’ll be temporarily closing the shop.

This pause comes it feels like the right moment to take a step back, rethink, and look for a new home more suited for exhibitions and gallery projects.

Alsolike has never been just a shop. it’s a space built with trust, curiosity, and shared love for craftsmanship. Thank you to everyone who has visited, collected, exhibited, or simply stopped by. Every encounter has shaped this journey.

This isn’t a farewell ,just a goodbye to 16 Chance Street.
We still have three more months to fill this space with warmth and stories.

21/09/2025

Last day of the exhibition, final chance to catch the show!

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September 16 – 21, 2025, 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM
16 Chance Street, London, E2 7JB

20/09/2025

19/09/2025

Exhibition in progress!

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September 16 – 21, 2025, 10:30 AM – 6:30 PM
16 Chance Street, London, E2 7JB

18/09/2025

On September 15th, we opened Secondary Function at Alsolike Gallery as part of the London Design Festival 2025 .

We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us — artists, friends, and guests — for making the evening so special. Your presence and conversations brought the exhibition to life.

A special thanks to for the opening talk, and to for her wonderful performance during the Private View.

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The exhibition runs until 21 September at our gallery on 16 Chance Street, London. We look forward to welcoming more of you in the coming days!
👉 Swipe for moments from the opening night.

15/09/2025

Militsa Milenkova

Militsa is an artist, designer, and maker based in Glasgow. She holds a BA (Hons) in Silversmithing and Jewellery from The Glasgow School of Art. Her practice centres on creating objects as a way of expressing thoughts, emotions, and personal reflections. She is drawn to ideas that capture her curiosity, using material experimentation to explore them further. Through her work, she examines the everyday and the overlooked, questioning how we assign value and meaning to objects. By reinterpreting familiar forms and materials, Militsa invites viewers to reconsider what is considered precious and why. Her work aims to prompt reflection on worth, memory, and material culture.
Militsa’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in private collection.

14/09/2025

Sheng Zhang .metalwork

Sheng Zhang is an award-winning contemporary jewellery and silversmithing designer maker whose designs are usually influenced and inspired by minimalist art, contemporary architecture and geometrical form. Associating with boundary, volume, silhouette, capacity, shadow and subtle detail, his practice concentrates on exploring the connection of internal and external, positive and negative space in his jewellery, vessels and objects. Sheng’s work demonstrates the aesthetics of minimal style, embracing both traditional silversmithing skills and modern approaches, each piece of Sheng’s work is a result of a carefully controlled and purposely structured making process.