Architectures of display : department stores and modern retail /
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. ©2018 |
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| Description: | xviii, 292 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in interior design Routledge research in interior design |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11386751 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Architectures of display: An introduction
- Part 1. 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. Galcrías Preciados (1943-1975): A Spanish cathedral of consumption and its display strategies during the Franco years
- Index
