Liberty's. A biography of a shop
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- Author(s) Adburgham, Alison
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1975
- Pages 160pp; illus
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account. narrative account. Has chapters: 'The Oriental Warehouse and the artists'; 'The first half-shop; Japanese bonanza'; 'The Aesthetic Movement; Whistler, Oscar Wilde, 'Patience'; 'The shop expands; Howell & James; Merton Abbey'; 'Chesham House; the Moorish craze; Isadora Duncan'; 'Godwin and the Costume Department; antique embroideries'; 'Decorating contracts; plagiarism; Paris Branch'; 'Into the nineties; the public company; the pedigree'; 'Art Nouveau; jewellery, silver and pewter'; 'The Belle Epoque - in London and The Lee'; 'Merchant adventuring; overseas contracts; World War 1'; 'Tempo of the twenties; the new buildings'; 'From the General Strike to World War II'; 'Post war renaissance; into the seventies'. Touches very briefly of Farmer & Rogers and their Oriental Warehouse