I’m feeling a bit seasonally schizophrenic as I’ve just returned from the winter gift shows where we reviewed fall and holiday 2013 products and I’m working on magazine assignments for the summer issue. After a January in Madrid, Atlanta and Las Vegas, I’m in the mood for spring so here’s a post full of spring display ideas.
Halloween and Easter are the times of the year that get my vote for the FUN PROPS award.
I spotted this cute jewelry display vignette at the Season’s Jewelry showroom at the World Market Center in Las Vegas. What an impact a simple box creates and allows for added décor (flowers) and dimensional displaying of product using cup hooks.
I’m sure by now you are aware of the Pantone Color of the Year for 2013 being EMERALD.
The showroom designers at World Market Center in Las Vegas had some fun with it, especially the rug showrooms — Capel Rugs and Loloi Rugs are pictured here.
One of my favorite window displays in the Americasmart buildings in Atlanta was the Greenleaf Gifts wedding window inspired by a new scent called First Blush:
Thanks to Patricia Norins of Pinnacle Publishing/GIFT SHOP Magazine who was able to get this better close-up shot than the one I took. Look closely for the clever and fun activities of the little wooden pajama-clad men. Fun!
The featured retail store for this post is La Turmix in Madrid Spain. It’s a lovely shop in an artsy area near Plaza Santa Ana. I’ll post more pictures of La Turmix on the Retail Details facebook page soon, but here’s my favorite…
…a TV as the cash counter. La Turmix had at least five gutted-TVs as displays and I can’t wait to assist a retail store in the US with similar projects soon!
Special thanks to the World Market Center in Las Vegas for the gracious invitation to present the visual merchandising seminar: 50 Fresh and Fascinating Display Ideas during the January show.
The room was filled with almost 200 retailers looking for creative display ideas to take back to their stores. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet so many enthusiastic business owners, buyers and visual merchandisers and I hope to share their creations on the blog as they start to send in pictures of their inspired displays.
As always, thanks for spending a few minutes celebrating displays with the Retail Details blog. We invite you to submit images of your displays to be considered for inclusion the blog. Send images to becky(at)swirlmarketing(dot)com
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Stay display inspired!
~Becky
In response to several requests for examples of how to cross-merchandise apparel and fashion accessories in a wall display, here’s a well-executed display at 
Bird cages — new and vintage — are all the rage for store display these days. You have undoubtedly seen them as jewelry display fixtures, for which they are ideal. This fun idea at 
The display is from 
Another fun Facebook find was Miss I Have Hangups, an entry in the Vote for your Favorite Scarecrow event with proceeds to benefit the Lexington, MO Food Pantry. The scarecrow is made almost entirely from apparel hangers and is the entry from 
I know you are going to ask, so I’ll go ahead and answer 
… the rope can be wrapped around vertical pipes to keep the hangrods from swinging.
One of the more frequent requests I receive from clients and blog followers is for ideas for displaying plush animals. When I spotted this display fixture at the Sea World store in the Orlando airport, I hung up on a phone call to take a picture with my camera.
Here’s a closer view.
As you would expect, Retail Details blog is a resource for visual merchandising students. We work closely with several schools to provide content for class discussions and we show up in many footnotes for college projects. Recently, some students sent me this picture of a store window assignment to thank me for sharing the “inspiration”. I’m not one of their instructors, but I would give them a good grade for execution. However, I would like to see them put their own twist on the window installation. (
Plush pet toys fill a garden fountain. Likely made of cement, this heavy-duty fixture makes a great display.
Glass jars cover an entire display table, also at Muttropolis.
Filled with treats and chewies, we love how they are labeled in white marker and the versatility of the jars as display units.
We first discovered South Park when someone suggested a new shop called 
Though pallets are definitely the theme for the fixtures at Graffiti Beach, we found some interesting and functional props that worked well with the unique nature of the merchandise. For instance, this fan for a sunglasses display.
In the fan picture, you can see the shelf lined with book pages and they continued this theme into the wall shelves and even on the display hanger.
A book that is a piece of art in itself, makes a great display prop for handmade headbands and jewelry.
