Stores of the Year/6

New York, USA: Retail Reporting Corp, 1000. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9.25" x 12.25. H/B 223 pages, condition is Very Good, a 2" tear to the rear cover of the DJ, (taped). Stores of the Year/6 presents over 100 outstanding retail store designs selected from the continental U.S., Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, England, Italy, Austria, Germany and Japan. In 250 pages and almost 300 full color photos, the reader is invited to visit retail spaces that range from under 1000 sq. ft. areas in malls and centers to giant department stores of several hunder thousand square feet that anchor the new vertical malls appearing in urban downtowns or on busy shopping thoroughfares and fashionable shopping streets. The gamut of retail designs runs from noted designer shops and exclusive boutiques to popular priced spaces in busy malls - from Renaissance settings to Flintrock and the outer space city of the Jetsons - from traditional, classic 18th and 19th century-inspired styling to sculptural and organic interiors that bring High-Tech to a new level of sophistication. Matsuda, Louis Feraud, Vittadini, Dolce E Gabbans, Bergdorf-Good-man, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Limited, Lerners, Brooks Bros., Jos. A. Bank, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren/ Polo, Gucci, Marithe And Francoise Girbaud - even Dick Tracy and the Flintstones are included in this volume which salutes "Back To The Future" as the current retail design direction.