Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction

By Wit Vernet/De and Leontine de Wit

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415363225
• ISBN13: 9780415363228
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.7"