Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction
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"The King's Road acquired the role of a runway for bands, underground theatrical productions (Look Back in Anger, The Rocky Horror Show) and fashion designers like Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood and Ossie Clark."--Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction (2007) by David Vernet, Leontine de Wit "The boutique depended upon the personality of its proprietors, and accorded celebrity to them: Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki (Biba), Tommy Roberts (Mister Freedom); in the 1970s, Vivienne Westwood (SEX and others), Paul Smith."--Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction (2007) by David Vernet, Leontine de Wit |
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Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction (2007) is a book by David Vernet and Leontine de Wit.
Blurb:
Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature.
Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing transformation over the past thirty years, materializing in the emergence of large-scale out-of-town shopping centres and new specialized shops in city centres. These specialized boutiques are highly designed, involving well-known architectural firms such as OMA/Rem Koolhaas, David Chipperfield, Herzog + de Meuron amongst others.
With case studies and over 100 black and white images, Vernet and de Wit set forth original and well-grounded theory to accompany this popular and lucrative area of work.
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