Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the brick and mortar to reconsider how the 'spaces of selling' were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces.

List of contents

Contents: Introduction: the spaces of selling. Part One The City and the Store, 1850-1880: The commercial metropolis; Street architecture and the mercantile house. Part Two The Department Store, 1880-1910: The factory and the fair; The palatial home: constructing a modern typology. Part Three Utopias and Distopias, 1900-1930: The world a department store; Shopping: across the sales counter. Conclusion: the titan city and the budget house. Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Louisa Iarocci is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Louisa Iarocci, Iarocci Louisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138548282
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54828-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, History of Architecture, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings