The Esders and Scheefhals building (Russian: ''Здание торгового дома “Эсдерс и Схейфальс”'', ''Zdaniye torgovogo doma “Esders i Skheyfal's”'') is a monumental building, originally a department store, in
Saint Petersburg
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Russia
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. The building is a "historic and cultural monument of the people of the Russian Federation" and is located at
Moika
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Embankment 73-79 at the corner of
Gorokhovaya Street
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, before the
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over the Moika.
History
The building was constructed in 1906-07 by architects Konstantin de Rochefort (see
article in Russian Wikipedia) and V.A. Lipskii.
Until 1919 it functioned as the "S. Esders and K. Scheyfals Trading House", also known as У красного моста (''U krasnova mosta'', "By the Red Bridge"). Signs on the building were in Russian and French — the French name indicated as Au Pont Rouge. It was an undertaking of Stefan Esders (see the
article in German Wikipedia), who had a factory in
Brussels
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and department stores in
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Rotterdam
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, Breslau (now
Wrocław
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Vienna
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in addition to St. Petersburg. Scheefhals was the Dutch partner for the St. Petersburg branch.
After the revolution, in 1919, the building became a sewing factory producing menswear.
In 1922 it was given the name Volodarsky Sewing Factory in honor of the Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician Moisei Goldstein, who went by the name of
V. Volodarsky
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Early years
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The cupola was torn down in the 1930s in order not to spoil the view of the Admiralty tower.
picture
In 1992 the factory was reorganized as FOSP (''Fabrika odezhdy Sankt-Peterburga'', ''Фабрика одежды Санкт-Петербурга'', "Saint Petersburg Clothing Factory").
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The building underwent extensive renovation by BTK Development in 2011-12, and the cupola was rebuilt. The original department store signage, in French and Russian (with pre-revolutionary spelling), has also been restored. The building reopened in 2016 housing the Au Pont Rouge luxury department store, with architectural designs by London-based ]Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is a practice of architects, urban designers and masterplanners established in 1986 and practising out of London.
History
Alex Lifschutz and Ian Davidson met working on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters ...
[https://www.designboom.com/architecture/rafael-de-cardenas-architecture-at-large-au-pont-rouge-department-store-st-petersburg-05-23-2016/]
References
External links
{{Commons category, Building of S. Esders and K. Scheefhals Merchant House
William Craft Brumfield, 'The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture'', p.222
Project information on Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands website
Buildings and structures in Saint Petersburg
Department stores of Russia
Shopping malls in Russia
Buildings and structures completed in 1907
Art Nouveau architecture in Saint Petersburg
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Saint Petersburg