Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Bloomingdale's 900 N. Michigan floor moves & installations

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Re-do  on the 6th floor, deconstruct, clean, paint, dress mannequins and reset.

Redo in Ralph Lauren kids, window at 900 N. Michigan Ave.

Painting it out black.



Looks great, the students got to choose the looks and worked with the RL specialist.

Looking from the customer's viewpoint, and making adjustments.

Dressing forms for the new installation.

a busy day, job complete.

A happening Holiday- Bloomingdale's, Medinah Home store

Bloomingdale's Holiday theme.

Taping and painting preliminary windows, started as a bridal event that later we worked into a Holiday window.




Jayson Home Flea installation with practicum

Always a great opportunity, setting up the Flea at Jayson Home. We worked here the second and third week of class, into the deep end right away.

Liz, researching French words to add to the chalkboard installation in the main room of the Flea market.


We had full access!


Carolyn, Caitlin, and Amanda pricing pillows in the conference room that needed to be out immediately.


Liz completing the chalkboard signage.





Beautiful pieces in the tent.

Amy and Roderick putting up giant vinyl on the exterior windows.

Looks great.

Fall displays.

We filled this cloche with mini white pumpkins.

Carolyn and Liz, install an interior display.

End of the day photo, job well done.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton- Art/Fashion/Collaboration

Louis Vuitton/Yayoi Kusama shop within a shop installation at Printemp Paris. Image from Printemp.

Yayoi in one of her installations.

Another Yayoi installation.

Yayoi visiting the New York Louis Vuitton shop.

A wax Yayoi in the Louis Vuitton window, past two images courtesy of New York Times.

A concept shop in Singapore.

The interior installation in the Singapore shop.

Collaboration signage, photos via Luxury Insider.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Haus Interior, Nina Freudenberger's shop.

A great look at a small shop that successfully blends texture, pattern & repetition.

The floor seems to beckon the consumer to the back of the shop.

Symmetry and repetition.

A bale of hay within an acrylic box is a wonderful play on texture.


All images from Lonny Magazine, Dec/Jan 2010 issue.

Kate Spade, store design-color.


Using gold as a neutral, floral carpeting gets blown up to an abstract pattern used later on the wall, which keeps it modern and fresh.




The color of the wall is echoed in the packaging, and allows the consumer to continue the store experience at home.


Lamps, vases, books and art help to turn retail into residential.

Over sized floral pattern on wall recalls the rug seen earlier.

Text over shoes, all images from Lonny Magazine.