The Department Store

Author : Jan Whitaker
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865652643

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World of Department Stores by Jan Whitaker Pdf

"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"--

Author : Traci Parker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469648682

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement by Traci Parker Pdf

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

Author : Vicki Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812291483

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From Main Street to Mall by Vicki Howard Pdf

The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, suburban growth and the ubiquity of automobiles shifted the seat of economic prosperity to malls and shopping centers. The subsequent rise of discount big-box stores and electronic shopping accelerated the pace at which local department stores were shuttered or absorbed by national chains. But as the outpouring of nostalgia for lost downtown stores and historic shopping districts would indicate, these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political, cultural, and economic identities. The first national study of the department store industry, From Main Street to Mall traces the changing economic and political contexts that transformed the American shopping experience in the twentieth century. With careful attention to small-town stores as well as glamorous landmarks such as Marshall Field's in Chicago and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, historian Vicki Howard offers a comprehensive account of the uneven trajectory that brought about the loss of locally identified department store firms and the rise of national chains like Macy's and J. C. Penney. She draws on a wealth of primary source evidence to demonstrate how the decisions of consumers, government policy makers, and department store industry leaders culminated in today's Wal-Mart world. Richly illustrated with archival photographs of the nation's beloved downtown business centers, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.

Author : Dr Louisa Iarocci
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409447436

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The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930 by Dr Louisa Iarocci Pdf

In 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.

Author : Jan Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 0500516022

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The Department Store by Jan Whitaker Pdf

Where, 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.

Author : Jan Whitaker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312326351

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Service and Style by Jan Whitaker Pdf

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Author : Emily M. Orr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350054394

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Designing the Department Store by Emily M. Orr Pdf

The 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.

Author : Minna Lacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147491795X

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Doll's House Department Store Sticker Book by Minna Lacey Pdf

Children can have fun running their own department store, preparing each room and department with furnishing and goods ready for customers to purchase.

Author : Joy L. Santink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038672825

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Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store by Joy L. Santink Pdf

Author : Claire Masset
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0747807728

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Department Stores by Claire Masset Pdf

The way we shop has undergone many transformations over the years, and a pioneer of one such change was the department store. Selling everything from clothes to cosmetics, furniture to food, the department store is a one-stop shop for consumers. Claire Masset charts the history of the department store, the innovations in retailing, advertising and technology, and the developments in fashion, design and working practices. Using evocative adverts, prints, memorabilia and photographs, the highs and lows of these retail giants are discussed, including the golden age of department stores in the 1920s and 1930s, and their future in a modern world. Filled with amusing anecdotes, this lively book brings the fascinating world of British department stores to life.

Author : Geoffrey Crossick,Serge Jaumain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429640421

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Cathedrals of Consumption by Geoffrey Crossick,Serge Jaumain Pdf

Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention of historians of culture, consumption, gender, urban life and much more. Indeed, the department store in its classic era of expansive growth has often seemed better than anything else to embody the cultural and social modernity of its time. The articles in this book range widely in presenting the breadth of these new approaches to department store history. An introductory essay explores the questions that surround the department store from its appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, through its golden age in the decades before the First World War, to the challenges posed in the more competitive world of inter-war Europe. A dozen contributors - writing about Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Hungary - then examine themes as varied as the new public space which department stores provided for women, the politics of consumption, the architecture of the new stores, the training of the workforce, the cult of shopping, advertising strategies, shoplifting, employer organisations, and the geographical spread of the new stores, while a comparison with eighteenth-century London raises the question of just how new the department store was.

Author : Anne Evers Hitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439669198

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Lost Department Stores of San Francisco by Anne Evers Hitz Pdf

In 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.

Author : Chris van Uffelen
Publisher : Braun Publish,Csi
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037681543

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Malls & Department Stores by Chris van Uffelen Pdf

In the age of multichannel commerce, shopping malls and department stores are faced with difficult challenges coupled with new and promising perspectives. The objective for a winning concept is to optimize the quality of stay by indulging visitors so they spend as much time as possible on site. The customer must conceive the visit as an all-around inspiring experience which engages the senses beyond the consumption of goods. This occurs by diversifying the offer with cultural institutions, a variety of dining opportunities and exciting leisure activities. Architectural quality as well as the targeted use of design is playing an increasingly important role. This richly illustrated volume with its detailed planning material presents the newest trends and developments in the context of current projects from around the world.

Author : Maudie Powell-Tuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801040125

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The Christmas Department Store by Maudie Powell-Tuck Pdf

Christmas for Benji has lost its magic. This year, his family can't afford a tree, or even a turkey. But then he stumbles upon the most extraordinary department store, where polar bears talk and the presents are out of this world.A heart-warming story of love, laughter and family.

Author : Richard Longstreth,Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Department stores
ISBN : 0300149387

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The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 by Richard Longstreth,Richard W. Longstreth Pdf

The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin's involvement in the assassination. --