Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail

ISBN-13: 9780367343897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Anca I. Lasc; Patricia Lara-Betancourt; Margaret Maile Petty

Opis

Through an international range of case studies from the 1870s to the present day, this volume analyses strategies of display in department stores and modern retail spaces.

Spis treści

Architectures of display: An introduction  PART I Displaying Modernity  1. "A world of furniture:" The making of the late Victorian furniture shop  2. Displaying dreams: Model interiors in British department stores, 1890–1914  3. Home economies: The T. Eaton Company’s Thrift House, 1926–1950  4. The art of window display: Cross- promotion at Bonwit Teller and MoMA  5. William Pahlmann and the department store model room, 1937–1942 6. Baroque lines in a modern world: The retail displays of Dorothy Draper  PART II Technologies of Display  7. "The Age of Show Windows" in the American department store: Techniques and technologies of attraction at the turn of the twentieth century  8. Drawing power: Show window display design in the USA, 1900s– 1930s  9. Automatic show windows: Frederick Kiesler’s retail technology and American consumer culture  10. Prop art: Harald Szeemann and the Warenhaus Gebrüder Loeb AG, Bern  11. From retail stores to real- time stories: Displaying change in an age of digital manufacturing  PART III Contested Identities/ Contested Displays  12. Exotics to erotics: Exploring new frontiers of desire within Parisian department store décors  13. Dovetailed displays: Show windows, habitat dioramas, and bird hats  14. Department stores and their display windows during the prewar Third Reich: Prevailing within a hostile Nazi consumer culture  15. The cultured corporation: Art, architecture and the postwar office building  16. "Knife/ Fork/ Spoon:" The Walker Art Center and the design and display of "Contour" sterling flatware service, 1949–1951  17. Galerías Preciados (1943–1975): A Spanish cathedral of consumption and its display strategies during the Franco years