[PDF] Marshall Fields Food And Fashion eBook

Author : Joan Greene
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764933202

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You can shop 'til you drop at Marshall Field's--and then recover with a great meal at one of the store's restaurants. Munch on the famous Frango mints while browsing through the store, or dine at the famous Walnut Room and have some of Mrs. Hering's famous chicken potpie. Pull out your charge card and order up the latest at the 28 Shop or Thomas Pink's--and have a nifty Marshall Field's London taxicab deliver your goods. Chicago's legendary Marshall Field and Company, the department store by which retail is measured, maintains its solid reputation for innovative fashion by conducting wardrobe workshops, carrying the best of European design, never overlooking customer service, and offering shoppers everything they could hope for. A Chicago Tradition: Marshall Field's Food and Fashion explores a retail icon's gustatory and fashion sense. How the original tearoom came about; how and why Mrs. Hering, a millinery salesclerk, got a menu item named after her; and just what makes Frango Mints so special are explained. Five of Field's all-time favorite recipes are shared with the reader; gorgeous photographs give us a glimpse of dining in days gone by. Also discussed and illustrated are some unique fashion firsts from Field's: first bridal registry, first men's store, first boutique. Take an intimate tour of one of the few remaining department stores totally devoted to quality and the customer, and sample a bit of Chicago history along the way. Written by Joan Greene, with the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation. 64 pages with smyth-sewn casebound binding and jacket. Size: 5 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 46 black-and-white and color images; and 5 recipes including Mrs. Hering's Chicken Pot Pie, and Field's Ice Cream Snowman Sundae.

Author : Gayle Soucek
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781596298545

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Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line forthe Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to MarshallField’s is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around townto apologize for changing the Field’s hallowed green bags. And with goodreason—the store and those who ran it shaped the city’sstreets, subsidized its culture and heralded its progress. The resultingcommercial empire dictated wholesale trade terms in Calcutta and sponsoredtowns in North Carolina, but its essence was always Chicago. So when the MarshallField name was retired in 2006 after the stores were purchased by Macy’s,protest slogans like “Field’s is Chicago” and “Field’s: as Chicago as it gets”weren’t just emotional hype. Many still hope that name will be resurrected likethe city it helped support during the Great Fire and the Great Depression. Until then, fans of Marshall Field’s can celebrate itshistory with this warm look back at the beloved institution.

Author : Jan Whitaker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312326357

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Author : Leslie Goddard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439670579

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or more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular window displays, and fashionable merchandise. Few shoppers recalled its origins as a small dry goods business opened in 1852 by a New York Quaker named Potter Palmer. That store, eventually renamed Marshall Field and Company, weathered economic downturns, spectacular fires, and fierce competition to become a world-class retailer and merchandise powerhouse. Marshall Field sent buyers to Europe for the latest fashions, insisted on courteous service, and immortalized the phrase "give the lady what she wants." The store prided itself on its dazzling Tiffany mosaic dome, Walnut Room restaurant, bronze clocks, and a string of firsts including the first bridal registry and first book signing.

Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300229933

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An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.

Author : Renée Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698137566

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In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: “Give the lady what she wants.” His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair. The night of the Great Fire, as seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames rise and consume what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can’t imagine how much her life, her city, and her whole world are about to change. Nor can she guess that the agent of that change will not simply be the fire, but more so the man she meets that night... Leading the way in rebuilding after the fire, Marshall Field reopens his well-known dry goods store and transforms it into something the world has never seen before: a glamorous palace of a department store. He and his powerhouse coterie—including Potter Palmer and George Pullman—usher in the age of robber barons, the American royalty of their generation. But behind the opulence, their private lives are riddled with scandal and heartbreak. Delia and Marshall first turn to each other out of loneliness, but as their love deepens, they will stand together despite disgrace and ostracism, through an age of devastation and opportunity, when an adolescent Chicago is transformed into the gleaming White City of the Chicago’s World’s Fair of 1893.

Author : Robert P. Ledermann
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738519722

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"This book vividly recreates ... a Christmas holiday trip down State Street. You will visit many of the major shops and stores that existed during the 1940's and beyond, viewing old display windows and getting reacquainted with famous Christmas characters ..."--p. [4] of cover.

Author : Leslie Goddard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1439674507

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Within thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America's grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation and inventory where you could buy anything from a paper clip to an airplane. Revisit a time when a trip downtown meant dressing up for lunch at Marshall Field's Walnut Room, strolling the aisles of Sears for Craftsman tools or redeeming S&H Green Stamps at Wieboldt's. Whether your family favored The Fair, Carson Pirie Scott, Montgomery Ward or Goldblatt's, you were guaranteed stunning architectural design, attentive customer service and eye-popping holiday window displays. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, advertisements, catalogue images and postcards, Leslie Goddard's narrative brings to life the Windy City's fabulous retail past.