Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces

<p>Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design <em>Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces</em> links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p>