May 16th, 2012
What do showroom displays and trade show booths have in common with retail store windows? They each have just a few short moments to catch a buyers attention.
Spring Street Jewelry uses angular bright white tables and cubes with a single accent color in the booth at The Accessories Show. A single pop of color, subtly anchors the displays of precisely placed merchandise. When choosing the pop color, either use a color that is prominent in the collection or a color on the opposite side of the color wheel. Tips for using cubes for display units: stack them to create shelves or stagger them allowing the “spaces” to become additional cubes. If you purchase cubes in varying sizes, they can nest inside each other for travel or storage. Various sizes also stack easily into a pyramid shape display. BIG HINT for traveling displays: purchase or build cubes that slide into each other. Turn the interior cube into a drawer and store merchandise or supplies inside.
There is nothing not to love about this spring display at Real Deals Home Decor in Granville, OH. It is a terrific example of well-placed merchandise, color patterning, thoughtful groupings and is a superior representation of how to create height in a focal display. Created by Beth Batke of Final Touches Redesign, this image is going into the Retail Details presentation file, so my display clients may see it as an example soon.
Problem solver: Structural Columns
If your retail space has columns that cannot be removed due to weight-bearing reasons (or just because you love their charm), consider turning a column into a selling space. At Fresh Store in New York City architectural interest added to the top and bottom allow for round retail shelves in the sell area. Most columns or posts are covered to appear much larger than they need to be. Ask your designer or architect if you could create some retail selling space and visual interest by stripping your columns down to the bare minimum diameter as a starting point.
During the Tabletop show at 7 W New York, Bess Wyrick, owner of Celadon & Celery transformed the lobby into a bright lemonade stand. Representing a theme of pop-up-shops, this idea could be modified for a store window or in-store display. Beyond spring, this could become a birthday party window (add balloons escaping from the mailboxes) a Halloween display (think candy and bats) and bring the mailboxes out again for the holidays to fill them with Christmas cards.
As always, thanks for reading the Retail Details blog and I hope you are inspired to create some fun displays in your shop! Join us on Facebook and you can read my Display Inspiration articles and trend reports in GIFT SHOP Magazine. Visit our Pinterest Page for lots more display pictures, but visit the blog often for ideas of how to modify the visual merchandising ideas for your store!
Stay display inspired!
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~Becky
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April 15th, 2012
Display. Sell. Repeat.
This week, Branch and Birdie did a major floor move and constructed some fabulous apparel racks for the shop in Portland, OR. The drama of the suspended racks is enhanced by the bold yellow accent wall.
You’ve seen us feature claw foot tubs as display fixtures and props in previous blog posts and magazine articles, but have you considered a shower curtain as a display backdrop, like this one at Spruce Eco-Store in New Orleans, LA? Cityscapes are a big trend and this would look great in a store window and what could be easier to hang?
If you were in New York this week for the Table Top show at Seven West, you had the pleasure of enjoying this lobby display created by the very talented team at Celadon and Celery Events. Buyers from all over the world are snapping photos of it. They are calling it a pop-up lemonade stand. I’ll put closer shots on our facebook page soon.
Pink Olive in NY had a contest for their customers and social media followers to guess how many clothes pins it took to create the fun spring displays in their store windows. Retail Details staff ventured a guess and did not even come close! Read more about the contest on the Pink Olive blog. One more shot…
If I mention Dallas Mart, hibiscus martinis, good food and superb visual merchandising eye-candy, you know I am talking about the Global Views showroom. They just announced that they are moving into a huge, dedicated showroom in the Atlanta Mart in time for the gift shows in July. Meanwhile, here’s a sneak peek of their window display at High Point Market, which runs from 4/21 to 4/26. I love the color-blocking as a canvas for the white-on-white merchandise.
We stumbled on a brand new store this week. Simplicity ABC is a new children’s store in Kirkland, WA. Here’s one of the windows all ready for the opening day. The theme was Live Laugh Learn. The LAUGH window is appropriately full of Clump-o-Lumps, which surely make us laugh.
Summer display idea: Baseballs. What a perfect prop for 4th of July windows. Inspired? We’d love to see what you come up with. Send us your baseball-inspired displays and we will share them here and on our facebook page. Click the About Tab for contact info.
As always, thanks for reading the Retail Details blog and I hope you are inspired to create some fun displays in your shop! Join us on facebook, see more display ideas on pinterest and you can read my Display Inspiration articles and trend reports in GIFT SHOP Magazine.
Stay display inspired!
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~Becky
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March 31st, 2012
Stay display inspired! The Retail Details blog is a visual merchandising blog all about store displays and fixtures. We feature inspiring retail displays from around the world. Check the ABOUT tab to find out how to submit your store displays to be considered for blog inclusion.
At Retail Details we LOVE window display competitions. Becky frequently judges display contests and consults for retail stores and showrooms. This display is one of the winners from a competition sponsored by Skunkfunk. This window took second place and the store is Barabu’ in Madrid, Spain. Swings are a fun merchandising staple for spring and summer displays. The key to the success of this window is a single focus color, yellow.
Best Buddies Dog Boutique used a swing in their spring window in St. Pete Beach, FL. The swing hangs from a beautifully constructed window tree. The caninequins are looking out the window so realistically, you almost expect to see nose prints on the glass!
Winter white is the neutral in this store window at Massimo Dutti in Paris, France. Once again, a single color is featured and this time it is the orange that is so popular this year. Pantone has named Tangerine Tango as the Color of the Year for 2012.
Sometimes clients and friends post display idea requests on our facebook page. Silk, spring scarves were the latest display challenge from Kathleen’s Gallery in Tryon, NC. We suggested wine bottles with the scarves flowing out of them and this is what they did with it. Suspending the bottles in the air was a great interpretation of the idea and created an eye-catching window. This is what “Stay display inspired!” is all about!
Another frequent request is for creative denim display ideas, so here’s one of our favorite jeans displays from Lamb & Flag in Brea, CA.
T-shirts can be a real display challenge and Southern Sisters and The Paper Fairy found a solution with this fixture that shows the color and design choices in a prominent manner. The t-shirts are rolled and stocked beside each design in the shop in Grayson, GA.
The best display props are ones that can be used in multiple display scenarios. The Mercy Hospital Gift Shop in Springfield, MO uses a white lantern as a prop for tabletop displays. They filled it with flowers and fruit for two different colorful spring displays.
You may have noticed quite a few pallets during the past year to accompany the repurposing trend in display props. This display utilizes grove baskets to hold merchandise in the HomArt showroom at AmericasMart in Atlanta, GA.
As always, thanks for reading the Retail Details blog and I hope you are inspired to create some fun displays in your shop! Join us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TheRetailDetails, see more display ideas on pinterest http://pinterest.com/storedisplays/ and you can read my display inspiration articles and trend reports in GIFT SHOP Magazine.
Display. Sell. Repeat.
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~Becky
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March 15th, 2012
Visual merchandising is the activity and profession of creating three-dimensional displays in order to maximize sales and catch the attention of consumers. Good store displays mix the creativity of design with the science of sales. Unique store displays set a tone for the style of a store. Mix it up with fun or elegant themes and most of all, STAY DISPLAY INSPIRED! Retail Details blog: for your display inspiration pleasure…
Altered tables become display shelves for an odd shaped, narrow wall at Polished Hands Salon in Taylorsville, NC. Painted in fun colors, the shelves create a whimsical wall. Alternative ideas: use dark wood piano benches for an elegant shoe display or use picnic benches mounted as shelves for a rugged men’s display or use butcher block tables for a housewares display.
The Retail Details staff visits hundreds of stores every year. Early March found us in Northeast Florida and we found ourselves in Jacksonville for the season-opener of the Riverside Arts Market. After a lovely lunch at the European Street Cafe, we strolled the Shoppes of Avondale.
Stop 1: Green Man Gourmet. Owners, Pete and David created an incredible retail environment to showcase spices, wines, olive oils and some amazing smoked salts. By mixing reclaimed woods with metal accents they created shelves along the walls and a large tasting station bar that serves as a focal point when you enter the store.
Fixture alert! The metal racks, curved to fit on the side of display barrels are perfect for displaying wine bottles.
The Easter display windows at The Hobbie Horse make me miss my days in children’s retail. Fun and playful.
St. Augustine is the nation’s oldest city and boasts over 100 locally owned, independent, eclectic stores located along historic cobblestone streets. Many shops take advantage of the beautiful weather to expand their selling space to the charming front porches and courtyards.
I stumbled on this cute little rolling fixture just outside Artifact. It is made from pipes mounted on a skateboard and is the perfect height for displaying tank tops. It would be SO CUTE in a kid’s display, as well. Artifact carries many locally produced items and organic apparel.
Don’t you just love the screen doors and red bike in this courtyard display at Cottage Garden in St Augustine?
As always, thanks for reading the Retail Details blog and I hope you are inspired to create some fun displays in your shop! Click on the about tab to locate the email to submit store photos for consideration for use in the blog. Also, join us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TheRetailDetails, see more display ideas on pinterest http://pinterest.com/storedisplays/ and you can read my display inspiration articles and trend reports in GIFT SHOP Magazine.
Display. Sell. Repeat.
~Becky
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