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Books > Health, Home & Family > Home & house maintenance > Home furnishing & decoration > General
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.
Get Scandi-cool with the Danish queen of minimal Scandinavia has
long been the home of outstanding interior design and classic
fashion brands like Acne Studios, Rains and Filippa K. But no one
personifies modern Danish cool as well as fashion industry stylist,
blogger and model Pernille Teisbaek. In her gorgeous first book
Pernille offers professional tips on how to create a minimalist
wardrobe and look, mix and match patterns successfully, adopt
androgynous looks or new colour combinations, try out new materials
and mix fabrics, plus plenty of timeless fashion advice such as a
jeans-fit guide and essential Dos and Don'ts. Her beauty chapter
reveals Pernille's capsule survival kit and how to achieve her
natural look. Pernille also covers pared-back Scandinavian home
design with an eye on balancing elegant simplicity and minimalism
with inviting homeliness and warmth, or hygge, and inspirational
pictures. A perfect gift for all Scandi lovers and anyone wanting
insider advice from one of fashion's most stylish experts.
'The interior-design side of this architectural-reclamation and
vintage-furniture business is headed up by the delightful and
deeply artistic Maria Speake. Her use of materials - many of them
reclaimed - and colour ensure her projects always sing with
modernity.' House & Garden Adam Hills and Maria Speake, the
partners behind architectural salvage and design company
Retrouvius, combine their salvage work with one of the most
sought-after interior design practices in Britain. Reclaiming Style
goes with them behind the scenes, from the demolition site to the
warehouse to the process of designing beautiful interiors using
reclaimed materials. Charted over twelve locations, ranging from a
17th-century cottage to a converted barn to a 1970s towerblock
apartment, the company's unique style goes far beyond a mere
commitment to salvage and sustainable design and offers an
inspiring new vision for sophisticated, thoughtfully constructed
living spaces.
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