Designs for Wigmore Street elevation of proposed extension to Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street, London: perspective
Architect/Designer | Sir John Burnet & Partners |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1931 |
Image Date | 1931 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Classical Revival |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | PA1184/2(17) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Shops ; Columns ; Entrances |
NOTES: Sir John Burnet & Partners were involved with Phases 2 and 3 of the construction of Selfridges, Phase 2 between 1919 and 1924 and Phase 3 between 1925 and 1928. These plans relate to proposals unveiled in 1930 to extend the store all the way north to Wigmore Street, more than doubling its size. Since 1928 H. Gordon Selfridge had begun to purchase properties on this second island site, bounded by Somerset Street to the south and Wigmore Street to the north. In the end only the south-east portion of the new site was developed, known as the SWOD (for Somerset, Wigmore, Orchard and Duke Street), which opened on 13 March 1933 with two floors below ground and two floors above ground. By 1938 Selfridge finally owned all the buildings on the second island site but he was deposed by the Selfridges Board only a year later. In 1955 the freeholds to all the Wigmore Street properties were sold to a developer.
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