Stores Of The Year No 15

The stores in this book vary in merchandise sold, target customer, price points, type of space, and location. Showcased are flagships, prototypes, free-standing, satellites, vendor shops and more. With more than 250 full-color photos, Stores of the Year No. 15 shows you how top professionals in the fields of design, architecture, lighting and fixtures, turn spaces into marketplaces. Famous designers and newcomers alike reveal new solutions to the complex problems of retail design and visual merchandising. Illustrated are the elements of good store design: architecture, fixturing, lighting and merchandise presentation.

Clever themes, outrageous props, and head-turning arrangements of merchandise make this tour of store windows one that should be looked into by anyone who is responsible for drawing customers into a store.

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