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69 | SHOPPING | Spotlight on shopsbags and rucksacks must be checkedinto the left luggage service. The closesttube station is Knightsbridge, on thePiccadilly line.Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday11.30am-6pm (browsing only between11.30am and 12pm on Sundays).Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Road,Knightsbridge, SW1X 7XL (enter SW31BB for sat-navs). T: 020 7730 1234www.harrods.comPeter JonesPeter Jones is a huge, eight-floor departmentstore opposite the Royal CourtTheatre on Sloane Square. It is namedafter its founder, Peter Rees Jones, aWelsh draper who moved to London andstarted a shop in Hackney, then movedto Bloomsbury, then to Draycott Avenueand eventually to 4-6 King’s Road in1877.The business expanded until it tookover 28 houses and a new building wasdeveloped in the 1880s. He is thought toPeter Jonesbe the first person to light his store withelectric lighting.When Jones died in 1905, JohnLewis, who owned a shop in OxfordStreet, bought Peter Jones. Legend hasit that Lewis put £22,500 in cash in hispocket, caught a bus to Sloane Squareand bought Peter Jones in his lunchbreak.John Lewis’s son, John Spedan Lewis,ran the Peter Jones store from 1914 andcame up with the idea of making theentire business a partnership, with all thepermanent staff becoming partners andsharing in the profits, giving them a voicein a business they co-owned.The John Lewis Partnership wasfounded in 1920 and has a written constitutionsetting out its principles, governanceand rules. The idea is that wheneveryou go into a John Lewis shop, youare served by an owner.The present Peter Jones building, nowGrade II-listed, was built in 1936. Themodernist design by Slater, Crabtree andMoberly, with its ‘glass curtain’ wall,caused quite a stir.A five-year, £107 million refurbishmentof the store was completed in 2004. Ithas a brasserie, an espresso bar and atop-floor restaurant.Monday-Saturday 9.30am-7pm(Wednesdays until 8pm, bank holidays10am-6pm), Sundays 10.30am-5pm(browsing only between 10.30am and11am on Sundays).Peter Jones, Sloane Square, SW1 8ELT: 020 7730 3434www.peterjones.co.ukDesignerdestinationsBeatrix OngBeatrix Ong, who rose from being afashion intern at Harper's Bazaar tobecome creative director of JimmyHarvey NicholsHarvey Nichols, affectionately known asHarvey Nicks, is an eight-floor luxurydepartment store specialising in fashion,beauty and lifestyle products, with thefifth floor dedicated to food, wine andrestaurants.It started as a linen shop in a terracedhouse on the corner of Knightsbridgeand Sloane Street in 1813, opened byBenjamin Harvey. It passed onto hisdaughter in 1920, on the understandingthat she go into partnership with ColonelNichols, selling Oriental carpets, silksand luxury goods alongside the linens.In 1880, the present building was built.Harvey Nichols was bought byDebenhams in 1919 and became part ofthe Burton Group in 1985, but wasacquired by Dickson Concepts(International) Ltd in 1991. In 1996, itwas listed on the London StockExchange, but was de-listed in 2003when it returned to private ownership.Today, Harvey Nichols has six UKstores, including the flagship atKnightsbridge, and one in Dublin, as wellas five stores in Saudia Arabia, HongKong, Dubai and Turkey. Future storesinclude one in Kuwait and a secondstore in Hong Kong. The group alsolaunched restaurants in the OXO Towerand Prism Restaurant and Bar.The fifth floor of the Knightsbridgestore houses a restaurant, a café andChoo, launched her shoe range in2002 and was made an MBE in 2011for services to British fashion.Her concept store on Pavilion Roadshowcases her collections of shoes andaccessories.Monday-Saturday 10am-6.30pm.188 Pavilion Road, SW3 2BFT:020 3463 7369www.beatrixong.comterrace, a bar, a food market and a wineshop, while the fourth floor featuresbeauty services including a BeyondMediSpa, SEN treatment rooms and theDaniel Hersheson Salon. The Fifth FloorCafé recently had a major makeover, featuringan open plan kitchen and a golden,horseshoe-shaped espresso bar.The closest tube station isKnightsbridge, on the Piccadilly line.Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday11.30am-6pm (browsing only between11.30am and 12pm on Sundays).Harvey Nichols, 109-125 Knightsbridge,SW1X 7RJ. T: 020 7235 5000www.harveynichols.comCassandra GoadJewellery designer Cassandra Goadlaunched her business more than 25years ago and soon moved to SloaneStreet, where she can be found next toHoly Trinity Church. The store, whichtakes up four floors, features twoshowrooms, a private room for specialcommissions, a design studio and anin-house workshop. Cassandra often