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Book Synopsis Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge by : Lindy Woodhead
Download or read book Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London’s Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge’s, England’s first truly modern built-for-purpose department store. Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience, six acres of floor space offered what he called “everything that enters into the affairs of daily life,” as well as thrilling new luxuries—from ice-cream soda to signature perfumes. This magical emporium also featured Otis elevators, a bank, a rooftop garden with an ice-skating rink, and a restaurant complete with orchestra—all catering to customers from Anna Pavlova to Noel Coward. The store was “a theatre, with the curtain going up at nine o’clock.” Yet the real drama happened off the shop floor, where Mr. Selfridge navigated an extravagant world of mistresses, opulent mansions, racehorses, and an insatiable addiction to gambling. While his gloriously iconic store still stands, the man himself would ultimately come crashing down. The true story that inspired the Masterpiece series on PBS • Mr. Selfridge is a co-production of ITV Studios and Masterpiece “Enthralling . . . [an] energetic and wonderfully detailed biography.”—London Evening Standard “Will change your view of shopping forever.”—Vogue (U.K.)
Book Synopsis Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge by : Lindy Woodhead
Download or read book Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London’s Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge’s, England’s first truly modern built-for-purpose department store. Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience, six acres of floor space offered what he called “everything that enters into the affairs of daily life,” as well as thrilling new luxuries—from ice-cream soda to signature perfumes. This magical emporium also featured Otis elevators, a bank, a rooftop garden with an ice-skating rink, and a restaurant complete with orchestra—all catering to customers from Anna Pavlova to Noel Coward. The store was “a theatre, with the curtain going up at nine o’clock.” Yet the real drama happened off the shop floor, where Mr. Selfridge navigated an extravagant world of mistresses, opulent mansions, racehorses, and an insatiable addiction to gambling. While his gloriously iconic store still stands, the man himself would ultimately come crashing down. The true story that inspired the Masterpiece series on PBS • Mr. Selfridge is a co-production of ITV Studios and Masterpiece “Enthralling . . . [an] energetic and wonderfully detailed biography.”—London Evening Standard “Will change your view of shopping forever.”—Vogue (U.K.)
Download or read book Selfridge written by Fergus Mason and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just for a moment try to put every shopping trip you’ve ever made out of your head. Imagine a different world. Imagine that all the goods for sale are locked away in cabinets and to handle them, or even to examine them closely, you need to ask a shop assistant to open it up for you. Imagine that within seconds of entering a store a floorwalker approaches you and asks if you’re planning to buy something – then, when you say “I’m just looking,” rudely tells you to leave. Imagine any attempt to return faulty or unsuitable goods being met with ridicule, obstruction or a flat refusal to help you. Until the late 19th century people didn’t have to imagine that; it was reality. For anyone alive today a visit to the average store back then would convince you that they didn’t really want to sell you anything. The idea of customer service was an alien one. Stores sold things. If you wanted to buy them, fine. If you didn’t they weren’t really interested. Browsing was strongly discouraged and impulse buys were almost unheard of. Shopping was something you did when you had to. It certainly wasn’t something anyone enjoyed. Then, in the late 1880s, one man came along and changed all that. His name was Harry Gordon Selfridge and this is the story of his life.
Book Synopsis The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939 by : Kerry Meakin
Download or read book The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939 written by Kerry Meakin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive history of window display as a practice and profession in Britain during the dynamic period of 1919 to 1939. In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department stores and other types of shops. However, these studies have only made passing references to window display and its role in retail, society and culture. Kerry Meakin investigates the conditions that enabled window display to become a professional practice during the interwar period, exploring the shift in display styles, developments within education and training, and the international influence on methods and techniques. Piecing together the evidence, visual and written, about people, events, organisations, exhibitions and debates, Meakin provides a critical examination of this vital period of design history, highlighting major display designers and artists. The book reveals the modernist aesthetic developments that influenced high street displays and how they introduced passers-by to modern art movements.
Book Synopsis Media Representations of Retail Work in America by : Brittany R. Clark
Download or read book Media Representations of Retail Work in America written by Brittany R. Clark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Representations of Retail Work in America examines the ways in which retail workers have been portrayed in popular culture texts from the early 20th century to the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge by : Lindy Woodhead
Download or read book Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the visionary American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge, rightfully known as 'the showman of shopping', moved from Chicago to open his eponymous store in Oxford Street, he brought with him his heartfelt belief in the sex appeal of shopping. In the process Selfridge became rich and famous, But his weakness for high living: fast women, grand houses, extravagant entertaining and an insatiable addiction to gambling, brought about his downfall. Thirty years after he opened his revolutionary store, Harry Gordon Selfridge was ousted in a Board Room coup. In 1947, he died virtually penniless in a small flat in Putney. His memorial is in Oxford Street, where the towering Ionic columns of Selfridges stand witness to the achievement of his dreams. In this book, which explores the rise of twentieth-century consumerism, Lindy Woodhead tells the extraordinary story of a revolution in shopping and the rise and fall of a retail prince.
Download or read book Wardrobe Crisis written by Clare Press and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street—or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced a globalized fashion industry worth $1.5 trillion a year. In Wardrobe Crisis, fashion journalist Clare Press explores the history and ethics behind what we wear. Putting her insider status to good use, Press examines the entire fashion ecosystem, from sweatshops to haute couture, unearthing the roots of today’s buy-and-discard culture. She traces the origins of icons like Chanel, Dior, and Hermès; charts the rise and fall of the department store; and follows the thread that led us from Marie Antoinette to Carrie Bradshaw. Wardrobe Crisis is a witty and persuasive argument for a fashion revolution that will empower you to feel good about your wardrobe again.
Book Synopsis Britain Since 1707 by : Hamish Fraser
Download or read book Britain Since 1707 written by Hamish Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments – such as the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy and gender change – while also tracing the distinctive experience of different, the book’s additional features include: social and ethnic groups through the decades. Fully integrating Scotland, Wales and the Irish experience, the book’s comprehensive sweep includes coverage of the industrial revolution, the British Empire, the two world wars and today’s multicultural society. Ideally structured to support courses and classes on British history · ‘Focus On’ sections with original documents and sources · Timelines and tables to aid understanding · Historical sources and further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter · Illuminating contemporary illustrations From Queen Anne to Gordon Brown, this wide-ranging and accessible book provides a complete and up-to-date history of Britain. Offering a coherent account of the evolution of the nation and its people, it will be essential reading for all students of British history.
Book Synopsis Edwardians on Screen by : Katherine Byrne
Download or read book Edwardians on Screen written by Katherine Byrne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton Abbey , it examines how the early twentieth century is represented on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender and politics, both past and present.
Book Synopsis Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by : Tim Harford
Download or read book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy written by Tim Harford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZON Look out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective. A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to IKEA’s Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention’s own curious, surprising, and memorable story. Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography.
Download or read book Mr. Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Vallardi. This book was released on 2014-10-23T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Londra esisteva già Harrods, che aveva tra i suoi clienti affezionati Oscar Wilde. I profeti di sventura erano disposti a scommettere sull’insuccesso della fiammante cattedrale del commercio. Ma Selfridge aveva la strategia vincente: rendere lo shopping eccitante come il sesso. La sua vita, sullo sfondo del jet set angloamericano, è stata segnata dall’ambizione, dal glamour e dall’amore smodato per il lusso e il gioco d’azzardo. Lindy Woodhead la ricostruisce con lo stile frizzante e appassionato di un grande romanzo. Nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento da Parigi a New York, i grandi magazzini – i «Paradisi delle signore», come li chiamava Emile Zola – cambiarono per sempre il volto del commercio. Ma nessuno meglio di Harry Gordon Selfridge comprese che lo shopping non ha solo a che fare con la qualità o la bellezza dei prodotti: cercando di prevedere le necessità e di soddisfare il bisogno di stile e svago delle sue clienti, Selfridge riuscì a fare di esso un’esperienza completa, divertente, seducente, e intossicante. Partito come magazziniere, Selfridge divenne l’uomo più importante dei grandi magazzini Marshall Field di Chicago, facendone una Mecca per le appassionate degli acquisti. A cinquant’anni tagliò ogni legame con l’America, e a Londra riuscì a trasformare le sue visioni in una realtà che dura tuttora, contribuendo a fare di Oxford Street una delle vie dello shopping più celebri del mondo. «Un libro pieno di energia e magnificamente dettagliato.» Spectator Business «Una trascinante biografia che è anche un ritratto coinvolgente della società del tempo.» Independent on Sunday
Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mr Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by PUNTO DE LECTURA. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro en el que se basa la serie de televisión. La fascinante historia del hombre que revolucionó nuestra forma de comprar, ahora convertida en una exitosa serie. En 1909 abrieron sus puertas en Oxford Street, en medio de una colosal campaña publicitaria, los grandes almacenes Selfridges, los primeros de Londres. Detrás de tan elegante fachada estaba Harry Gordon Selfridge, el gran genio estadounidense. Empresario inconformista y arriesgado, dandi y el mayor showman que ha conocido el mundo del comercio, la clave de su éxito fue despertar la seducción por las compras. Y así como crecieron su éxito y su fama, también lo hizo su estilo de vida: mansiones, yates, juegos de azar, caballos de carreras... y amantes. Desde el glamour de la Inglaterra eduardiana y los excesos embriagadores de los años veinte hasta hoy en día, los grandes almacenes Selfridges han sido un gran teatro que levanta el telón todas las mañanas a las nueve en punto. La crítica ha dicho... «Un fascinante estudio biográfico, y también sociológico.» The Guardian «Una descripción cautivadora de la moda, la política, la música y la danza, las artes, las ciencias de la publicidad y el uso de los medios de comunicación en las décadas anteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial.» London Evening Standard
Book Synopsis Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation by : Dana Ferguson
Download or read book Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation written by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
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Download or read book Pan Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Motto. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kniha, která se stala inspirací úspěšného televizního seriálu Pan SelfridgeŽivot zakladatele známého obchodního domu Selfridges, který revolučním způsobem ovlivnil i naše nakupování, byl plný přepychu, krásných žen a hazardu. Harry Gordon Selfridge byl však také vizionář, který se podílel na zrodu moderní reklamy a koncepce dnešních obchodních domů. Rozpoznal potenciál konfekce a prosadil prodej dámské kosmetiky. Nezajímal se ale jen o módu a obchod, dokázal vždy vyhmátnout a podpořit všechno nové a progresivní, co doba přinášela. Především ale dovedl odhadnout, po čem ženy touží, a nabídnout jim to.Nechejte se svést!Lindy Woodhead věnovala dvacet pět roků svého života práci v módním průmyslu jako odbornice pro styk s veřejností, spolu s manželem Colinem založili PR agenturu. Koncem osmdesátých let minulého století se dostala jako první žena vůbec do představenstva Harvey Nichols’. S příchodem nového tisíciletí se ve věku padesáti let rozhodla od základů změnit svou profesní dráhu a stát se spisovatelkou. Její první kniha, War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden – Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry vyšla v roce 2003. Svůj zájem o svět módy a obchodu využila i při psaní knihy Pan Selfridge (Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge), kterou vydala v roce 2007. Jejím nejnovějším dílem je Midnight Mother: Mrs Meyrick – The Most Notorious Nightclub Owner in 1920s London z roku 2014. Pravidelně přispívá do časopisů věnujících se životnímu stylu. S manželem mají dva syny a žijí střídavě v Londýně a v jihozápadní Francii.
