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The Death and Life of the Department Store
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‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the origins of the grands magasins. She joins Tom to talk about their 19th and 20th-century heyday as cathedrals of consumerism but as places, too, where women could spend time away from home, and away from men, safely and respectably, whether they were shopping or working there. She also recalls the Christmas she worked in the toy department at Selfridge's, demonstrating wind-up bath toys.
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Manage episode 444344659 series 2525476
‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on the origins of the grands magasins. She joins Tom to talk about their 19th and 20th-century heyday as cathedrals of consumerism but as places, too, where women could spend time away from home, and away from men, safely and respectably, whether they were shopping or working there. She also recalls the Christmas she worked in the toy department at Selfridge's, demonstrating wind-up bath toys.
Sponsored links:
Use the code ’LRB’ to get £100 off Serious Readers lights here: https://www.seriousreaders.com/lrb
Find out more about ACE Cultural Tours: https://aceculturaltours.co.uk
See Maddaddam at the Royal Opera House: https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/maddaddam-details
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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