Store Design & Visual Merchandising
The latest store format innovations, store design trends and visual merchandising, including the latest store image galleries by John Ryan.
Store Design News
DSGi steps up roll out of 2-in-1 shops
DSGi is to accelerate the roll out of its 2-in-1 Currys and PC World stores with 60 locations identified.
Figleaves trials move from pure play with concession in Allders
Lingerie etailer Figleaves is trialling its first physical retail offer with a concession in Allders in Croydon.
Dobbies: From food to fuchsias in Aberdeen
The new-look Dobbies garden centre in Aberdeen is sustainable and modern, with a seamless mixed-product offer.
Getting into club Bershka
Can the club ambience of Bershka’s revamped Oxford Street store help put it more firmly on the UK’s young fashion map?
HMV and Waterstone’s: Joined-up thinking
The HMV Group has just opened its first joint HMV and Waterstone’s store, near Newcastle. John Ryan visits to see if the new format works
Green Market to new market: Debenhams returns to Newcastle
Debenhams has returned to Newcastle after 15 years and its store has some bold new features. Yet it works.
Store Designs on the future
Store design may have been on the back burner in the past 12 months, but John Ryan finds 2010 is shaping up to be better
Store of the week
Store of the Week: Banana Republic Regent Street
What is it about animals that makes them immediately acceptable as props in a window display? The answer is that there is probably something of the pet-owner in all of us, and if they are on view in a non-threatening stylised form, then what’s not to like?
Store of the week: La Petite Poissonnerie Primrose Hill, London
Every now and then you come across something that does make you stop and smile and this newly opened shop in London’s chi-chi Primrose Hill does just that.
Store of the Week: Zigzag Liège, Belgium
Zigzag is a homewares store that uses Denmark as a convenient cipher for designed simplicity and all-round wholesomeness.
Store of the Week: Kronometry 1999, New Bond Street
French watch retailer Kronometry 1999 is exactly what you would expect of a store on New Bond Street.
Old pilots never die...
Why is is that experimental formats are allowed to stagger on and not put out of their misery?
Stores In-Depth
Shopfitting: Fitter, happier, more productive
Retailing has changed and that means to be successful shopfitters need to change too. John Ryan takes the temperature of the shopfitting world
