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26 mar 2015 · From Victorian London to Soviet-era Moscow, department stores have changed the way we shop and influenced culture around the world, writes Jonathan Glancey.
- The Department Store
From Victorian London to Soviet-era Moscow, department...
- The Department Store
History. Origins in England, 1700s. One of the first department stores may have been Bennett's in Derby, first established as an ironmonger (hardware shop) in 1734. [7] . It still stands to this day, trading in the same building.
26 mar 2015 · From Victorian London to Soviet-era Moscow, department stores have changed the way we shop and influenced culture around the world, writes Jonathan Glancey.
The three biggest department stores in the mid-1960s, both in sales volume and physical size, were Macy's, Hudson's, and Marshall Field, in that order. Hudson's, shown here, had 25 stories, 16 of them selling floors.
Department stores were urban landmarks; store owners were highly visible public figures, and they were influential citizens, not only as businessmen, but as fashion setters, charity leaders, and symbols of their city. As mergers and the growth of conglomerates eroded single-family control of department stores, they and their owners lost some of ...
27 paź 2021 · In the Western context, department stores originated in the nineteenth century. The term ‘department store’ became current in the 1890s in both Britain and the United States, though it was more narrowly applied in Victorian Britain than it was across the Atlantic.
The Bon Marché in Paris, which began as a small shop in the early 19th century, is widely considered the first department store. John Wanamaker carried the concept to the United States in 1875 by purchasing a rail-freight depot in his native Philadelphia and populating it with a collection of specialty retailers.
