Going inside Harrod's
May. 8th, 2010 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77The big news from London today is that Harrod's, the incredible luxury department store in Knightsbridge, has been sold. Mohammed Al-Fayed is retiring and sold the store to the Quatar royal family for $2.3 billion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8669657.stm
Harrod's is a magical place...part store, part amusement park and museum, filled with shops, 28 restaurants and wild architecture and curiosities. It's almost impossible to describe it to someone who hasn't been there. And in the past they've been very secretive...not allowing photos inside etc. until now.
http://www.harrods.com/harrodsstore/
I clicked over to their web site to see what's new, and they have a tag called "Harrod's 360" in the upper left that lets you go on a tour of the various rooms. Beware...it is addictive. It takes awhile to load, but that didn't stop me from touring the food halls, the Egyptian Escalator, the Fossils and Minerals Gallery...the Dodi & Diana memorial...wow. It brought back memories of an amazing afternoon when I visited and gawked and bought a few little things in this temple to consumers and excess.
Harrod's is a magical place...part store, part amusement park and museum, filled with shops, 28 restaurants and wild architecture and curiosities. It's almost impossible to describe it to someone who hasn't been there. And in the past they've been very secretive...not allowing photos inside etc. until now.
http://www.harrods.com/harrodsstore/
I clicked over to their web site to see what's new, and they have a tag called "Harrod's 360" in the upper left that lets you go on a tour of the various rooms. Beware...it is addictive. It takes awhile to load, but that didn't stop me from touring the food halls, the Egyptian Escalator, the Fossils and Minerals Gallery...the Dodi & Diana memorial...wow. It brought back memories of an amazing afternoon when I visited and gawked and bought a few little things in this temple to consumers and excess.
