Foreword 1. The Oriental Warehouse and the Artists 2. The First Half-shop; Japanese Bonanza 3. The Aesthetic Movement; Whistler; Oscar Wilde, ‘Patience’ 4. The Shop Expands; Howell & James; Merton Abbey 5. Chesham House; the Moorish Craze; Isadora Duncan 6 Godwin and the Costume Department; Antique Embroideries 7. Decorating Contracts; Plagiarism; Paris Branch 8. Into the Nineties; the Public Company; the Pedigree 9. Art Nouveau; Jewellery, Silver and Pewter 10. The Belle Epoque – in London and at the Lee 11. Merchant Adventuring; Overseas Contracts; World War I 12. Tempo of the Twenties; the New Buildings 13. From the General Strike to World War II 14. Post-war Renaissance; into the Seventies Index
Biography
Alison Adburgham
