Department stores
![Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co. : merchants and general importers of British, Continental and American merchandise, Clarence and Barrack Streets, Sydney. On sale: American chairs, American hardware, Austrian furniture, bedsteads, books, cigarettes, cigars, clocks, cricketing and other sporting goods, crockery, cutlery, firerarms, furniture, glassware, ironmongery, jewellery, leather goods, musical instruments, optical goods, organs, Palmer's vestas, patent medicines, perfumery, pianos, plated ware, saddlery, stationery, tobacconists' goods, tobaccos, toys, watches, fancy goods of every description [trade catalogue]](https://api.mhnsw.au/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.mhnsw.au%2Ffotoweb%2Fembed%2F2025%2F12%2F81bfc94eeccd420ab4e8be2eb0dcfaf3.jpg&w=1920&h=400&fit=inside&format=webp)
Sydney's home furnishing stores
Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co
Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co’s new warehouse invited Sydney shoppers to step into a world assembled from every reach of the global trade routes that furnished the late-Victorian home
Sydney's home furnishing stores
Mark Foyʼs
Most Sydneysiders associate Mark Foy’s with its impressive former home, now used as the District Court
Sydney's home furnishing stores
Grace Bros
From its location just outside Sydney’s main business district, Grace Bros grew to become one of the city’s largest department stores.
Sydney's home furnishing stores
F Lassetter & Co
F Lassetter & Co started life as an ironmongery business, becoming one of Sydney's largest 'universal providers' by the end of the 19th century
Sydney's home furnishing stores
Bebarfalds
Bebarfalds was a retailer of home furnishings and manufacturer of furniture, trading for many years from its landmark location opposite the Sydney Town Hall on the corner of George and Park Streets
Sydney's home furnishing stores
Simpson Lee & Co
Starting in 1910 James Simpson-Lee (1883-1963) and a group of businessmen established a home furnishing store called H L & S Simpson & Co.
On This Day
24 May 1838 - David Jones department store opened
On 24 May 1838 David Jones opened a department store on the corner of George Street and Barrack Lane in Sydney
Sydney's home furnishing stores
JA Booth & Co
Although J A Booth & Co was a Sydney furniture and furnishing retailer for over 50 years, the company started life in a very different manner: as tea merchants.
Sydney's home furnishing stores
RH Gordon & Co
RH Gordon & Co was a retailer of home furnishings, credited with introducing to Australia an installment payment system known as cash orders.