| Peter Jones & Partners | |
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 Exterior of Peter Jones (2011) | |
 Interactive map of the Peter Jones & Partners area | |
| General information | |
| Status | Open |
| Type | Department store |
| Architectural style | Modernist |
| Location | Sloane Square,London,England |
| Coordinates | 51°29′32″N0°09′32″W / 51.4922°N 0.1590°W /51.4922; -0.1590 |
| Named for | Peter Jones |
| Year built | 1932–1936 |
| Opened | 1936; 90 years ago (1936) |
| Renovated | 1999–2004 |
| Renovation cost | £107 million |
| Client | John Spedan Lewis |
| Owner | John Lewis & Partners (John Lewis Partnership) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 7 |
| Floor area | 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of selling space |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | William Crabtree |
| Architecture firm | Slater, Crabtree and Moberly |
| Renovating team | |
| Architect | John McAslan |
| Other information | |
| Public transit access | |
| Website | |
| johnlewis | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Peter Jones Store |
| Designated | 7 November 1984 |
| Reference no. | 1226626 |
Peter Jones & Partners (formerly and still colloquiallyPeter Jones) is aGrade II listeddepartment store inSloane Square inChelsea, London, England. It was designed byWilliam Crabtree[1] forJohn Spedan Lewis, and opened in 1936; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded byPeter Jones in 1877. It is owned by theJohn Lewis Partnership, which also owns theJohn Lewis department store and theWaitrose supermarket chains.
The shop is named afterPeter Rees Jones (1842–1905), the son of aCarmarthenshire hat manufacturer. After serving an apprenticeship with adraper inCardigan, Jones moved to London and established a small shop inMarylebone Lane. He then moved to central London, and in 1877, he moved to 4–6King's Road, the current site of the store. The business flourished, soon expanding to cover most of the block, occupied on a 999-year lease from the Cadogan estate at £6,000 per year, the terms of which have never been increased.[2]
After a period of troubled trading and Jones' death, the store was purchased byJohn Lewis of the eponymousOxford Street store, who handed it over to his sonJohn Spedan Lewis in 1914. Soon after, it became part of the John Lewis profit sharing partnership. In 2009, Simon Fowler was appointed managing director, overseeing a two-year period of growth where sales and profits reached record levels. This period also spanned Peter Jones' 100th anniversary of its membership at the John Lewis Partnership, where it is widely recognised to be the birthplace of the democratic employee ownership structure still found in the retailer today. Tony Wheeler was appointed managing director in 2011.[3]
The present building, which occupies an entire island site on the west side ofSloane Square, was built between 1932 and 1936 to designs byWilliam Crabtree of the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly.[4] The building is the first modern-movement use of the glasscurtain wall in Britain (not, as is often claimed, the first per se, as late-Victorian examples in theGothic Revival style exist) and is now a Grade II*listed building.
The store completed a lengthy refurbishment byJohn McAslan and Partners in 2004.[5]
The store holds tworoyal warrants granted byCharles, then Prince of Wales, andPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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