2-703-892 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'East India House, Liberty's Individualised Frontage on the New Regent Street', c1935. View of Liberty's department store in central London. Arthur Lasenby Liberty first opened his store on Regent Street in 1875. The mock Tudor building on Great Marlborough Street and the larger Beaux Arts classical building, named East India House, were built to the designs of Edwin Thomas Hall and his son and partner Edwin Stanley between 1922 and 1925. (This East India House is not to be confused with the building of the same name in Leadenhall Street which was the London headquarters of the East India Company). From "Wonderful London, Volume 2", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]