Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, W1
Harry (Alan Rickman) furtively buys a necklace for flirtatious Mia (Heike Makatsch) in the famous Oxford Street department store in Love Actually.
The shop assistant character (Rowan Atkinson), who makes such an elaborate job of wrapping the gift, and who reappears at the airport towards the end of the film, was originally meant to be a recurring deus ex machina angel character. This idea was finally cut. “Enough,”, as Andrew Lincoln says, “Enough, now.”.
One of the first great department stores, there's been a Selfridges on this site since 1909. If the sculptural frontage isn't quite imposing enough for your tastes, you’ll regret that plans for a gigantic tower to rise above Oxford Street were dropped.
Love Actually (2003, dir: Richard Curtis)
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