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Peter Jones is a large department store in central London. It is owned by John Lewis Partnership and located in Sloane Square, Chelsea.rightHistoryThe shop is named after Peter Rees Jones (1842–1905), the son of a Carmarthenshire hat manufacturer.After serving an apprenticeship with a draper in Cardigan he moved to London and established a small shop in Marylebone Lane. He then moved to central London, and in 1877 moved to 4–6 Kings Road the site of the present store. The business flourished, soon expanding to cover most of the block, occupied on a 999-year lease from the Cadogan estate at £6,000 per year, the terms of which have never been increased.After a period of troubled trading and the death of Peter Jones, the store was purchased by John Lewis of the eponymous Oxford Street store, who handed it over to his son John Spedan Lewis in 1914. Soon after it became part of the John Lewis profit sharing partnership.The present building, which occupies an entire island site on the west side of Sloane Square, was built between 1932 and 1936 to designs by William Crabtree of the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly. The building is the first modern-movement use of the glass curtain wall in Britain (not, as is often claimed, the first per se, as late-Victorian examples in the gothic revival style exist) and is now a Grade II* listed building.

"John Lewis is a chain of British department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom and with international delivery across 37 countries.John Lewis Peter Jones is located in Sloane Square.The store comprises of eight floors and includes technology, homewares, fashion, beauty and more.There are facilities on offer on each floor from a Nespresso boutique in the basement to beauty treatment rooms on the first floor and Benugo cafe on the second floor. The sixth floor provides several more services including an Espresso bar and Kuoni Travel.Pop in and ask a Partner for the latest workshops, tasters and classes happening in store, or otherwise check the website and What’s On page for local events near you."