The best of Chelsea by the people who know - Cadogan

69 | SHOPPING | Spotlight on shops
bags and rucksacks must be checked
into the left luggage service. The closest
tube station is Knightsbridge, on the
Piccadilly line.
Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday
11.30am-6pm (browsing only between
11.30am and 12pm on Sundays).
Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Road,
Knightsbridge, SW1X 7XL (enter SW3
1BB for sat-navs). T: 020 7730 1234
www.harrods.com
Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a huge, eight-floor department
store opposite the Royal Court
Theatre on Sloane Square. It is named
after its founder, Peter Rees Jones, a
Welsh draper who moved to London and
started a shop in Hackney, then moved
to Bloomsbury, then to Draycott Avenue
and eventually to 4-6 King’s Road in
1877.
The business expanded until it took
over 28 houses and a new building was
developed in the 1880s. He is thought to
Peter Jones
be the first person to light his store with
electric lighting.
When Jones died in 1905, John
Lewis, who owned a shop in Oxford
Street, bought Peter Jones. Legend has
it that Lewis put £22,500 in cash in his
pocket, caught a bus to Sloane Square
and bought Peter Jones in his lunch
break.
John Lewis’s son, John Spedan Lewis,
ran the Peter Jones store from 1914 and
came up with the idea of making the
entire business a partnership, with all the
permanent staff becoming partners and
sharing in the profits, giving them a voice
in a business they co-owned.
The John Lewis Partnership was
founded in 1920 and has a written constitution
setting out its principles, governance
and rules. The idea is that whenever
you go into a John Lewis shop, you
are served by an owner.
The present Peter Jones building, now
Grade II-listed, was built in 1936. The
modernist design by Slater, Crabtree and
Moberly, with its ‘glass curtain’ wall,
caused quite a stir.
A five-year, £107 million refurbishment
of the store was completed in 2004. It
has a brasserie, an espresso bar and a
top-floor restaurant.
Monday-Saturday 9.30am-7pm
(Wednesdays until 8pm, bank holidays
10am-6pm), Sundays 10.30am-5pm
(browsing only between 10.30am and
11am on Sundays).
Peter Jones, Sloane Square, SW1 8EL
T: 020 7730 3434
www.peterjones.co.uk
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Beatrix Ong
Beatrix Ong, who rose from being a
fashion intern at Harper's Bazaar to
become creative director of Jimmy
Harvey Nichols
Harvey Nichols, affectionately known as
Harvey Nicks, is an eight-floor luxury
department store specialising in fashion,
beauty and lifestyle products, with the
fifth floor dedicated to food, wine and
restaurants.
It started as a linen shop in a terraced
house on the corner of Knightsbridge
and Sloane Street in 1813, opened by
Benjamin Harvey. It passed onto his
daughter in 1920, on the understanding
that she go into partnership with Colonel
Nichols, selling Oriental carpets, silks
and luxury goods alongside the linens.
In 1880, the present building was built.
Harvey Nichols was bought by
Debenhams in 1919 and became part of
the Burton Group in 1985, but was
acquired by Dickson Concepts
(International) Ltd in 1991. In 1996, it
was listed on the London Stock
Exchange, but was de-listed in 2003
when it returned to private ownership.
Today, Harvey Nichols has six UK
stores, including the flagship at
Knightsbridge, and one in Dublin, as well
as five stores in Saudia Arabia, Hong
Kong, Dubai and Turkey. Future stores
include one in Kuwait and a second
store in Hong Kong. The group also
launched restaurants in the OXO Tower
and Prism Restaurant and Bar.
The fifth floor of the Knightsbridge
store houses a restaurant, a café and
Choo, launched her shoe range in
2002 and was made an MBE in 2011
for services to British fashion.
Her concept store on Pavilion Road
showcases her collections of shoes and
accessories.
Monday-Saturday 10am-6.30pm.
188 Pavilion Road, SW3 2BF
T:020 3463 7369
www.beatrixong.com
terrace, a bar, a food market and a wine
shop, while the fourth floor features
beauty services including a Beyond
MediSpa, SEN treatment rooms and the
Daniel Hersheson Salon. The Fifth Floor
Café recently had a major makeover, featuring
an open plan kitchen and a golden,
horseshoe-shaped espresso bar.
The closest tube station is
Knightsbridge, on the Piccadilly line.
Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday
11.30am-6pm (browsing only between
11.30am and 12pm on Sundays).
Harvey Nichols, 109-125 Knightsbridge,
SW1X 7RJ. T: 020 7235 5000
www.harveynichols.com
Cassandra Goad
Jewellery designer Cassandra Goad
launched her business more than 25
years ago and soon moved to Sloane
Street, where she can be found next to
Holy Trinity Church. The store, which
takes up four floors, features two
showrooms, a private room for special
commissions, a design studio and an
in-house workshop. Cassandra often