Everything about The Burlington Arcade totally explained
The
Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade in
London that runs behind
Bond Street from
Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th century European shopping gallery and the modern
shopping centre. The Burlington Arcade was built "for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public".
The arcade was built to the order of Lord George Cavendish, younger brother of the
5th Duke of Devonshire, who had inherited the adjacent
Burlington House, on what had been the side garden of the house. His architect was
Samuel Ware. The Arcade opened in 1819. It consisted of a single straight top-lit walkway lined with seventy-two small two storey units. Some of the units have now been combined, reducing the number of shops to around forty. The ponderous Piccadilly façade in a late version of Victorian
Mannerism was added in the early 20th century.
The pedestrian arcade, with smart uniform shop fronts under a glazed roof, has always been an upmarket retail location. It is patrolled by Burlington Arcade
Beadles in traditional uniforms including
top hats and
tailcoats. The original beadles were all former members of Lord George Cavendish's regiment, the
10th Hussars. Present tenants include a range of clothing, footwear and accessory shops, art and antique dealers and the jewellers and dealers in antique silver for which the Arcade is best known.
The Burlington Arcade was the successful prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the
Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and
The Passage in
St Petersburg, the first of Europe's grand arcades, to the
Galleria Umberto I in Naples or the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. in burlington arcade there's a new stoer called polistas, but doesn't fit in with the whole image of the arcade and very similar to ralph lauren....
The sedate atmosphere of the Burlington Arcade was interrupted in 1964 when a Jaguar Mark X charged down the arcade, scattering pedestrians, and six masked men leapt out, smashed the windows of the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Association shop and stole jewellery valued at £35,000. They were never caught.
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