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Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge Book
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In 1909 the largest department store in London's West End designed and built from scratch opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the facade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman risk-taker dandy and one of the greatest showmen the retail world has ever known. His talents were to create the seduction of shopping and as his success and fame grew so did his glittering lifestyle: mansions yachts gambling racehorses - and mistresses. From the glamour of Edwardian England through the turmoil of the Great War and the heady excesses of the 1920s and beyond Selfridges Department Store was 'a theatre with the curtain going up at 9 o'clock each morning'. Mr Selfridge reveals the captivating story of the rise and fall of the man who revolutionised the way we shop. 'Lively and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph 'Will change your view of shopping forever' Vogue 'Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop ...fascinating' Daily Mail
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Zola called Selfridges a 'great cathedral of shopping', and its high priest was Harry Gordon Selfridge, father of modern retailing, philanderer, gamble dandy and the greatest showman the consumer world has ever known. The charismatic Selfridge had created nothing less than a lavish 'theatre of retail.
- 1781250588
- 9781781250587
- Lindy Woodhead
- 20 December 2012
- Profile Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 336
- Television tie-in edition
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