Architectures of Display

Download or read book Architectures of Display written by Anca I. Lasc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an international range of case studies from the 1870s to the present, this volume analyzes strategies of display in department stores and modern retail spaces. Established scholars and emerging researchers working within a range of disciplinary contexts and historiographical traditions shed light on what constitutes modern retail and the ways in which interior designers, architects, and artists have built or transformed their practice in response to the commercial context.