A London address
Piccadilly 1794
At 38 Piccadilly, the Leuchars story takes its place in London’s West End: a street of specialist shops, personal objects and equipment for the journey.
Surviving views and records bring the address into focus, from the shopfront to the name carried on a case.
The Tallis Street Views
John Tallis’s street views record Piccadilly as a succession of shopfronts: names above doors, narrow façades and neighbouring trades. In this detail, the Leuchars premises appear beside Sackville Street.
The address is more than a line on a label. It places the case maker within the street, close to the other shops and businesses of the West End.
Follow Lucy Leuchars at 38 Piccadilly
The world of the case maker.
Inside a fitted case, the street gives way to a more private arrangement. Brushes, scent bottles, grooming tools and writing implements each find a place, ready to be lifted out and returned.
Case making brings those individual objects together: an exterior for carrying, an interior organised around the habits of its owner.
Made for the journey.
The fitted case connects the shop to the world beyond it. Its purpose becomes clear when it is packed, carried and opened again: personal objects held together through a change of place.
That relationship between an interior and a journey runs through the Leuchars story, from dressing equipment to the portable writing desk.
Leuchars in historic London.
The address gives the story a place; surviving objects and documents give it detail. The Leuchars Archive follows those connections through fitted cases, personal equipment and the marks they carry.
