The World a Department Store
Author: Bradford Peck
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
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World of Department Stores
Author: Jan Whitaker
Publisher: Vendome Press
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780865652644
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is the first beautifully illustrated book on department stores, with photographs and ephemera from all over the world. Born in the Gilded Age in France, the department store grew up thanks to the industrial revolution, the rise of the middle class, and the invention of steel-frame architecture and the elevator. Spectacular entrances led to marble staircases and floor after floor of merchandise and amenities. These emporiums also inspired a whole new way of merchandising: shopping became an entertainment rather than a laborious grind; posters and advertisements were made by the great artists of the time; and elaborate shop windows attracted thousands of people during the holidays. The department store quickly spread through Europe and Asia and then the New World, and great architects were employed to build these temples of consumerism, where dreams were created and then fulfilled"--
Service and Style
Author: Jan Whitaker
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-08-22
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780312326357
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The Department Store
Author: Jan Whitaker
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500516027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere, under one roof, can shoppers find Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen? And where, besides the great department stores of Europe, Japan and America, is it possible for shoppers to spend the day in an extraordinarily opulent setting, drifting from shoes to cosmetics with a stop for a light lunch on the seventh floor and a visit to the bookstore, florist or hairdresser? This is the first illustrated book on department stores, with photographs and ephemera collected from all over the world. Born in the Gilded Age in France, the department store grew up thanks to the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the middle classes, and the invention of steel-frame architecture and the elevator. This lavish book goes behind the fabulous window displays, eye-catching shopping bags and instore extravaganzas promoting everything from shoes to perfumes to the latest fashion sensation to reveal and celebrate the department store in richness and detail.
Lost Department Stores of San Francisco
Author: Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1439669198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's defined good taste, the City of Paris satisfied desires for anything French and edgy, youth-oriented Joseph Magnin ensnared the younger shoppers with the latest trends. Join author Anne Evers Hitz as she looks back at the colorful personalities that created six major stores and defined shopping in San Francisco.
Hudson's: Detroit's Legendary Department Store
Author: Michael Hauser
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780738560656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSomething for Everyone
Author: Michael Leannah
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0870205889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1890 the Lauerman brothers opened a general store in the lumber-boom town of Marinette, Wisconsin. The business prospered, and soon the brothers abandoned their small quarters on Main Street for a magnificent department store on Dunlap Square in the heart of Marinette. Thanks to the Lauermans’ devotion to offering diverse merchandise, superior customer service, and loyalty to their employees, the store would remain a lively, vital part of the Marinette fabric for one hundred years. This book traces the history of the Lauerman enterprise and its importance to the community of Marinette and dozens of counties in northern Wisconsin and the UP. The author takes readers on a tour of the store’s most memorable and delightful features, from the plethora of merchandise offered to the record-listening booths to the famous frosted malt cones. Along the way we hear the recollections of dozens of former customers and employees whose memories form a unique tapestry of family, business, and community story. As it brings to life the people who worked and shopped at Lauermans, Something for Everyone will have readers fondly recalling their own favorite shopping destinations during the golden age of department stores.
The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960
Author: Richard Longstreth
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300149388
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Designing the Department Store
Author: Emily M. Orr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1350054399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book builds an original argument for the department store as a significant site of design production, and therefore offers an alternative interpretation to the mainstream focus on consumption within retail history. Emily M. Orr presents a fresh perspective on the rise of modern urban consumer culture, of which the department store was a key feature. By investigating the production processes of display as well as fascinating information about display-making's tools and technologies, the skills of the displayman and the meaning and context of design decisions which shaped the final visual effect are revealed. In addition, the book identifies and isolates 'display' as a distinct moment in the life of the commodity, and understands it as an influential channel of mediation in the shopping experience. The assembly and interpretation of a diverse range of previously unexplored primary resources and archives yields fascinating new evidence, showing how display achieved an agency which transformed everyday objects into commodities and made consumers out of passersby.
The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930
Author: Dr Louisa Iarocci
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-12-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 140944743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the brick and mortar to reconsider how the ‘spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces.
