A good professional window dresser must be innovative and creative, intuitive and resourceful, i.e., an artist with a technical and commercial base. They must also possess artistic, marketing and technical skills. Moreover, an excellent sense of colour and light and an ability to create scenic displays is also important. This handguide, published by Ideaspropias Editorial, is a practical guide to the techniques, methods, materials and procedures entailed in the art of window dressing. It also includes resources and real examples that will guide and facilitate your work when designing a shop window. The aim of this training material is give you the knowledge of how to develop the design of a window display, by applying window-dressing techniques based on previously-identified technical, marketing and aesthetic objectives. This practical guide is a reference for all those wishing to design and assemble a window display.

Shares hundreds of ideas for dressing up windows, in a guide that provides for a variety of types, includes scan-ready sample board sketches, and explains the correct procedures for measuring.

This beautiful, picture-packed portfolio features a variety of both hard and soft treatments, along with the tips and tricks that can make any window dressing a knockout. Over 200 gorgeous color photographs of designer window treatments are included plus a handy resource section.

The most comprehensive DIY window book on the market The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments makes it easy to choose and construct today's most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades. Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware. Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way. Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results. This is the big book of DIY window treatments!

"Transform your room from drab to fab with stylish curtains and blinds! While it may seem daunting, the process of making curtains and blinds is surprisingly simple, and even the most basic makeover can give your room a fresh new lease on life! Covering everything from how to choose and measure fabrics to fully illustrated tutorials for creating curtains, blinds, valances, and decorative treatments, WINDOW TREATMENTS WITH STYLE gives home sewers all the tools they need to transform any room. Case studies also offer a unique insight into how other modern makers have transformed their own window treatments." -- page 4 of cover.

The book builds an original argument for the department store as a significant site of design production, and therefore offers an alternative interpretation to the mainstream focus on consumption within retail history. Emily M. Orr presents a fresh perspective on the rise of modern urban consumer culture, of which the department store was a key feature. By investigating the production processes of display as well as fascinating information about display-making's tools and technologies, the skills of the displayman and the meaning and context of design decisions which shaped the final visual effect are revealed. In addition, the book identifies and isolates 'display' as a distinct moment in the life of the commodity, and understands it as an influential channel of mediation in the shopping experience. The assembly and interpretation of a diverse range of previously unexplored primary resources and archives yields fascinating new evidence, showing how display achieved an agency which transformed everyday objects into commodities and made consumers out of passersby.