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Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) [1] [3] was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership of Selfridges led to his becoming one of the most respected and wealthy retail magnates in the United Kingdom.
Selfridges Building, Birmingham. Selfridge stores are known for architectural innovation and excellence, and are tourist destinations in their own right. [37] The original London store was designed by Daniel Burnham, who also created the Marshall Field's main store in his home town of Chicago.
Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece / WGBH [ 1 ] for broadcast on ITV .
John Selfridge (1927–2010), American mathematician; Oliver Selfridge (1926–2008), English computer scientist, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge; Peter A. Selfridge (born 1971), United States Chief of Protocol (2014–2017) Rose Selfridge (1860–1918), American heiress and wife of Harry Selfridge
Her next book, about Harry Selfridge, came in 2012 and was adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies into four series of Mr Selfridge for ITV. Davies admitted that when he was sent Woodhead's book as a possible project to adapt, he couldn't see the television appeal of shopping.
Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London.It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909. [1] Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m 2) of selling space, [2] the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK [1] (after Harrods). [2]
During the construction of Harry Selfridge's London store in 1909, the British press ridiculed the project and its policy, unheard of in London, that the customer would be "always right". [7] A Sears publication from 1905 states that its employees were instructed "to satisfy the customer regardless of whether the customer is right or wrong". [8]
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