Welcome to Big Biba - Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World

Big Biba was the final flowering of the near-mythical Biba retail brand. A shop like no other, all seven storeys stocked own-brand products packaged in the distinctive Biba style. Customers were immersed in a sensory smorgasbord - the complete shopping experience. A committed Bibaphile could buy a satin skirt, a leopard-print suitcase and a new bathroom, then spend the afternoon sipping cocktails among the flamingos in the roof garden, while the legendary Rainbow Room doubled as a live venue for some of the coolest acts in the world.



In the wake of this decadent dreamland's 50th anniversary, and in honour of the 60th anniversary of the very first Biba shop,

Welcome to Big Biba

is being republished, complete with over 150 photographs of the store and its products and designs. Written by the author of
The Biba Experience
and designed by Steven Thomas - the designer of Big Biba itself - these pages offer readers a genuine slice of the greatest pleasure palace in retail history.




'Welcome to Big Biba is an exceptional production... a perfectionistic coup'
-
Phil Baker, The Art Book
.

Summary

Richly illustrated in full colour, this reissue of Welcome to Big Biba is a fitting tribute to the greatest pleasure palace in retail history.

Additional text

"In its heyday Biba was the second most popular tourist attraction in the capital after the Tower of London… Now all we have is this book of marabou-fringed nostalgia."

Product details

• Authors: Steven Thomas, Alwyn W Turner, Alwyn W. Turner
• Publisher: ACC Art Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2024
• EAN: 9781788842617
• ISBN: 978-1-78884-261-7
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 295 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 790 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Photo art; Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, Orte auf alten Fotografien, Fashion, Photography, Geschichte einzelner Unternehmen / Unternehmensgeschichte, Exhibition, Places in old photographs, ShopHistory, FashionandTextileMuseum, LondonStores, RetailBrands, BoutiqueStores