Shopping, seduction & Mr Selfridge

by Woodhead, Lindy

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Title Statements

Full title :Shopping, seduction & Mr Selfridge / Lindy Woodhead.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Profile
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

TV tie-in.

Originally published: 2007.

The Physical Object

Description:pages cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781250587, 1781250588, 9781847650689, 1847650686, 9781861978882, 186197888X
oclc:ocn810949876
Dewey Decimal:381.141092

Subjects

Biographies businessmen Businessmen -- Biography. -- United Sta… Commerce de détail -- Histoire. -- Gran… Great Britain History Hommes d'affaires -- Biographies. -- Ét… Retail trade Retail trade -- History. -- Great Brita… Selfridge, H. Gordon, (Harry Gordon) Selfridges (Firm) United States