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    Designed to Sell by Wood, Alessandra;

    The Evolution of Modern Merchandising and Display

    Series: Routledge Research in Interior Design;

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    Short description:

    Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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    Long description:

    Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function and new modes of merchandise display, resulting in the emergence of a new type of industrial designer.


    The evolution of aesthetics in department stores during this period reflected larger cultural shifts in consumer behaviour and lifestyle. Designed to Sell explores these changes using five key case studies and original archival sources to reveal the link between designers and consumption beyond the design of individual objects. It argues that design is not simply connected to retail consumption, but that it is capable of controlling how and where customers shop and what they are drawn to purchase.


    This book contextualises this discussion and brings it up to date for students and scholars interested in design, retail, and interior history.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction


    Scope and Thesis


    Vocabulary


    Chapter Organization


    Note on Sources



     


    1 Setting the Stage: Design and Display at the Turn of the Twentieth Century


    Merchandising at the Turn of the Century


    Spectacle and the Museumification of Displays


    Display Men, Window Dressers, and the First Merchandisers


    Display Before Visual Merchandising: "Scientific Selling"



     


    2 The Development of Visual Merchandising


    Professionalization of Interior Display


    The Introduction of "Visual Merchandising"




     


    3 Downtown Remodeling: Implementing New Conversations


    Selling Modernism


    Raymond Loewy and The Foley Brothers Department Store


    Gimbels Gets The Raymond Loewy "Magic Touch"



     


    4 The Challenge of Efficiency in a Specialty Shop


    Differences in Display: Merchandising in Upscale Specialty Stores


    Neiman Marcus, 1941 and 1953



     


    5 Seeing Change: The "Personality" of a Store


    Early Suburban Branch Locations


    "Informality" at Neiman Marcus, Preston Center


    Raymond Loewy Associates’ "Community" Building



     


    6 "Image Building" In the Shopping Center, the 1960s


    From Small-Town Store to National Retailer: The J.C. Penney Company


    Together Under One Roof: The NorthPark Mall



     


    Conclusion

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