Description: The first book to explore the development of sophisticated selling strategies and innovative display aesthetics in department stores across Europe and the US, featuring never-before-seen evidence and primary sources.
Brief description: Emily Marshall Orr is Assistant Curator of American design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, USA.
Review Quotes: "In Designing the Department Store, Emily M. Orr reveals how art and commerce developed in tandem throughout the 19th century, in response to the era's World Fairs and the growing influence of design reform. Orr demonstrates the depth of this convergence, and highlights the common roots that department stores and art museums share." --Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, USA