Dress Code

Dress Code: Interior Design for Fashion Shops presents a selection of innovative retail interiors from across the globe, exemplifying the very latest shops, showrooms, boutiques, and ?agship stores created by the world's most influential designers. Dress Code is an irresistible resource for everyone involved in fashion retail. Each project is complemented by an interview with the store's designer as well as detailed technical information including plans and sketches of the interior. Featured interior designers include Block Architecture, Comme des...

Top Shops 2

The world's coolest shoppers spend their money at the world's coolest shops...the top shops. Last year's Top Shops impressed store designers everywhere with its dynamic feature projects, full-color pictures, floor plans, construction details, and professional commentary. Now architects and interior designers who want to stay on top need Top Shops 2, packed with the most exciting and innovative stores introduced in the past year. It's a top shop op that just won?t stop! Tops in store design--trendy, urban, contemporary. Hundreds of photos of top shops from around the world.

Superb Shops

Bubbling with life, sound, and color, here are the most superb shops from around the globe. Superb Shops gathers the freshest and hippest shops and packs them into one exciting volume, with hundreds of full-color photos and in-depth architectural commentary. Floor plans and construction details provide the background information architects and designers need to create top shops of their own.

The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping / Harvard Design School Project on the City 2

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture

The first comprehensive examination of the many overlaps and visual and intellectual principles that unite fashion and architecture. In recent years, the boundaries between architecture and fashion have become increasingly blurred, and this beautifully illustrated new book explores the intersections and concepts that underlie the two disciplines. Both architecture and fashion are based on the human body and on ideas of space, volume, and movement. Each functions as shelter or wrapping for the body—a mediating layer between the body and the environment...

Best Designed Flagship Stores

In recent times, global players and international brands from almost all industries have chosen excellent architecture at first-class addresses as a way of concentrating their presence in a distinctive location. In most cases, innovative and avantgarde flagship stores lend a unique architectural frame to the whole product range of a single manufacturer. Dramaturgically designed rooms and backdrops set the scene for the brand in relation to lifestyle, creating an emotional bond between the manufacturer and customer. On 168 pages, the author Jons Messedat, doctor of...

Cool Shops Tokyo

A rich heritage of Japanese tradition meets the best of international trends in Tokyo’s cutting-edge boutiques and stores. As you’d expect from a dynamic and forwarding-looking city, the shops in Tokyo have an innovative flair unequalled anywhere else. If you’re looking for the quirkiness of Tokyo’s youth culture, or the understated elegance of Asia’s business capital, you’ll find it all in this Japanese metropolis. This comprehensive guide leads you to the very best shopping this remarkable city has to offer.

Stores and Retail Spaces 9

The ninth edition of this popular series, with 300 full-color photos, features 41 award-winning new specialty shops, department stores, shop-in-shops, shopping center kiosks, food courts, counter-service and sit-down restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores, specialty food shops, service retailers, exhibits, manufacturer showrooms and auto dealerships. Also includes intimates, shoes, electronics, airport newsstands, college campus stores and big box retail. Every project was chosen by The Institute of Store Planners (ISP) for excellence in store planning, visual...

ecoDesign: The Sourcebook

From a solar electric bus to fashions made from recycled inner tubes, EcoDesign: The Sourcebook showcases some of the most innovative, environmentally friendly products and prototypes from around the world. The 700-some designs include furniture, appliances, vehicles and electronics. Each entry in this encyclopedic reference features a photograph and brief description, as well as information about the various components of the product. The book is edited by Alastair Fuad-Luke, who teaches green design at Falmouth College of Arts in England, and includes a resource...

New Retail

In the decades since the advent of the shopping mall, shopping has become synonymous with entertainment and the retail store a key player in establishing brand identity. In a growing trend, high-profile architects are designing provocative storefronts and interiors that create an aura of exclusivity, draw in customers, and attract media attention rivaling the goods within.New Retail examines this phenomenon with an overview of 24 of the most innovative retail spaces built around the world in recent years, designed by high-profile international architects as well as smaller...

Store Presentation and Design No. 2

Turn selling space into sales! * Creative, cutting-edge visual merchandising * More than 250 color photographs show how to make the store sell Here are the finest examples of in-store visual merchandising--displays that show how creative design, architecture, lighting, fixture choice, and merchandise presentation can turn selling space into sales. Store Presentation and Design No.2 illustrates exactly how store design, visual merchandising, and display have become closely interrelated, and it keeps designers abreast of the latest trends in materials, fixtures, lighting...

Stores of the Year No. 16

Today’s challenging retail market demands new solutions in visual marketing. In its sixteenth edition, Stores of the Year presents more than 250 full-color photos revealing how top professionals in design, architecture, lighting, and fixtures turn spaces into marketplaces. Interior designers, architects, visual merchandisers, and retail executives will refer to this book time and time again for creative ideas and innovations. * More than 250 full-color photos of the best store designs of the year. * Ideas for merchandise presentation, architecture, fixturing, and lighting.

Shopping Environments: Evolution, Planning and Design

An inspirational and unique showcase of international retail design and planning.

New Shopping Malls

Creating an appealing overall look as well as a distinctive image for each shop...integrating communal areas...handling parking and public facilities...these are just some of the challenges facing the designers of modern shopping malls. Shop and Malls features dozens of remarkable examples of successful malls, each one showcased with floor plans, insightful text, sketches, and full-color photographs that show how the designers met the retail challenge. Shop and Malls is a one-stop shopping resource for design professionals, architects, and urban planners.

New Supermarket Design

Supermarkets are changing. Gone are the days of boxy, frozen warehouses stacked high with package goods. Today's supermarkets can be inviting or theatrical, artfully urban or charmingly rural. An informative guide to the fast-changing world of modern supermarket architecture, New Supermarket Design is a sumptuous, visual tour of the most groundbreaking innovations in the field. From the American Midwest to the streets of Tokyo, this beautiful book collects 40 of the most revolutionary ideas in store design, product arrangement, and thematic conception.