Architectures of Display (eBook, PDF)

Department Stores and Modern Retail
Redaktion: Lasc, Anca I.; Maile Petty, Margaret; Lara-Betancourt, Patricia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317178965
• Artikelnr.: 49268976

Autorenporträt

Anca I. Lasc is Assistant Professor of Design History in the History of Art and Design Department at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Patricia Lara-Betancourt is a design historian and research fellow at The Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, UK. Margaret Maile Petty is Professor and Head of the School of Design in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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