Shops and Stores Today - Their design, planning and organisation by Ellis E Somake & Rolf Hellberg

B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1956

Hardcover, 231 pages

In a highly competitive world, the premises a shopkeeper occupies have a very great effect on the appeal and on the sale of his goods. They may easily be the deciding factor in gaining or losing him a lead over his rivals. A really successful shop design can only result from an appreciation of basic principles, a close analysis of requirements and a knowledge of the possibilities open to the designer. 

This book is unique in being the first comprehensive work to be written with all these points in mind, and store owners, shopkeepers, architects and town planners will all find in it a range of information which is unusually wide. The entire problem is covered from the selection of the site to the final completion. Reconstruction and remodelling are also fully discussed.