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Shop Fronts

4/5 ( ratings)

Shop fronts can make or mar a city street, yet their design and their history have been little written about - perhaps because they easily fall victim to changes in commercial life, while all too often unique Edwardian or Victorian features are replaced with hideous plastic fascia boards and unsympathetic lettering.

Combining social and architectural history, Alan Powers traces the evolution of the shop front from bow windows and the classical features of the eighteenth century and Victorian plate glass to the rise of multiple stores like Sainsbury's and W.H. Smith's. The result is a fascinating insight into a world that is familiar to us all, and yet remarkably little known about.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Chatto and Windus

Release: June 27, 1989

ISBN: 0701133686

ISBN 13: 9780701133689

Shop Fronts

4/5 ( ratings)

Shop fronts can make or mar a city street, yet their design and their history have been little written about - perhaps because they easily fall victim to changes in commercial life, while all too often unique Edwardian or Victorian features are replaced with hideous plastic fascia boards and unsympathetic lettering.

Combining social and architectural history, Alan Powers traces the evolution of the shop front from bow windows and the classical features of the eighteenth century and Victorian plate glass to the rise of multiple stores like Sainsbury's and W.H. Smith's. The result is a fascinating insight into a world that is familiar to us all, and yet remarkably little known about.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Chatto and Windus

Release: June 27, 1989

ISBN: 0701133686

ISBN 13: 9780701133689

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