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Brompton Road

Brompton RoadMontpellier street

Brompton Road

Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road

Harrods

Celebrul Harrods, este cotat ca unul dintre cele mai scumpe şI elegante magazine din lume

The store occupies 20,000 m2 and has over 90,000 m2 of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 50,000 m2 of selling space.

Istoria magazinului începe în anul 1849 când Henry Charles Harrod a deschis o mică băcănie pe Brompton Road care datorită grijii faţă de calitatea produselor a devenit rapid foarte populară

Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25.

Tatăl lui Dodi, proprietarul magazinului Harrods, a amenajat un „memorial”

Since the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al-Fayed, Mohamed Al-Fayed's son, two memorials commissioned by Al-Fayed have been erected inside Harrods to the couple. The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photographs of the two behind a pyramid-shaped display that holds a wine glass smudged with lipstick from Diana's last dinner as well as what is described as an engagement ring Dodi purchased the day before they died

The second memorial, unveiled in 2005 and located by the Egyptian escalator at door three is titled "Innocent Victims", is a bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach beneath the wings of an albatross. The albatross is a bird that is said to symbolise the "Holy Spirit“

The sculpture was created by 80 year old Bill Mitchell who is a close friend of Al-Fayed and has been the artistic design advisor to Harrods for 40 years

Mr. Al-Fayed said he wanted

to keep the pair's "spirit

alive" through the statue

Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1.5 billion.

Up to 300,000 customers visit the store on peak days.

More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods.

Actriţele Lily Langtry şi Ellen Terry au fost printre primii clienţi care au beneficiat de credit nelimitat

Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud and many members of the British Royal Family.A fleet of fifty delivery vehicles make up to 225,000 deliveries every year.

OMNIA OMNIBUS UBIQUE

The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere.

Noaptea magazinul este luminat de 11.500 de becuri

Approximately 11,500 energy-efficient light bulbs turn Harrods into a beacon of light each night.

♦ BZN - Dance, dance ♦ Elton John - Candle in the wind

Fotografii:

Adrian Moacă

Daniela Iacob

Mara Chinţa

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