Stores Of The Year Vol 14

Stores of the Year No. 14 shows with over 225 full-color photos, how top professionals in the fields of design, architecture, lighting and fixtures, turn spaces into marketplaces. Both newcomers and famous designers present new solutions to the complex problems of retail design and visual merchandising. Spotlighted in this 14th book in the Stores of the Year series are the elements of good store design: architecture, fixturing, lighting, and merchandise presentation. The selected projects illustrate how top professionals in the field of store design turn spaces into marketplaces that sell the goods. The many faces, approaches and attitudes of store design are presented herewith. The book's 176 colorful pages feature boutiques, shops and stores in the following retail categories: women's fashion, men's fashion, lifestyle, children's wear and fashion accessories. With a plethora of design solutions, Stores of the Year No. 14 is a book you'll refer to time and again for creative innovation and ideas -- whether you're an interior designer, architect, visual merchandiser, or retail executive. Anyone responsible for creating exciting atmospheres for today's shopper will find great new ideas in this book. Book jacket.

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the ?spaces of selling? were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces. The agenda of the book is three-fold; to address the lack of a comprehensive architectural study of the nineteenth century department store in the United States; to expand the analysis of the commercial city as a built and represented entity; and to continue recent scholarly efforts that seek to understand commercial space as a historically specific and a conceptually perceived construct. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 acts as a corrective to a current imbalance in the historiography of this retailing institution that tends to privilege its role as an autonomous ?modern? building type. Instead, Iarocci documents the development of the department store as an urban institution that grew out of the built space of the city and the lived spaces of its occupants.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.