Floris, no. 89 Jermyn Street, London SW1. This well-known perfumer, its shop window seen here from two angles, has been occupying these premises since 1810. It has a "good mid C-19 shopfront and a seductive interior of mahagony cabinets modelled on one from the Great Exhibition of 1851" (Bradley and Pevsner 609).
Inside, in an inner room, is a special cabinet dedicated to its history. Pride of place goes to a "treasured letter written by Florence Nightingale in 1863 to 'Mr Floris' (James) thanking him for his 'beautiful sweet-smelling nosegays'" ("History of Floris").
Mosaic tiling at entrance.
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Bibliography
Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner. London 6: Westminster. The Buildings of England series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
"History of Floris.". Floris. Web. 2 September 2016.
Weinreb, Ben, Christopher Hibbert, Julia Keay and John Keay. 3rd ed. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, 2008.
Created 2 September 2016