The Complete Book of Curtains, Drapes, and Blinds

The Complete Book of Curtains, Drapes, and Blinds
Author: Wendy Baker
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0312586531

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.

Design techniques for window dressing

Design techniques for window dressing
Author: Carmen Cabezas Fontanilla
Publisher: Ideaspropias Editorial S.L.
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8498392225

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.

The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments

The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments
Author: Linda Neubauer
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1616733225

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!

"Window Dressing" in Bank Reports

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1963
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN:

Reviews Federal bank supervision practices and allegations of deceptive reporting practices by national banks.

Window Dressing

Window Dressing
Author: Nikki Rivers
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459244311

Sometimes Reality Bites… Lauren Campbell thought she knew where she was going. After dropping her son off at college, she’d have four years to live out her dreams and plan the future. But she’d been so living in denial, spending her days baking cookies, cleaning the house and going to PTA meetings, that she missed the fine print on her divorce. Now she’s about to go from empty nest to no nest because her ex’s support has ended! From dressing as a milkmaid at the local grocery to working on window displays, Lauren struggles to make lemonade out of lemons. But a strange thing happens along the way. This “temporary” life starts looking more appealing than the life she’s built in her fantasies….

Window Display

Window Display
Author: Tony Morgan
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780675542

A showcase of the most exciting, innovative and successful window displays worldwide, with seven chapters covering key topics for the visual merchandiser, each with a gallery of photographs demonstrating how and why each window is successful. Colour is a great tool to promote a trend, Seasonal Windows exploit key shopping seasons, while following Trends, in fashion, food or homewares, and translating them quickly into a display is a key skill for a visual merchandiser. Graphics and Photography are cost-effective and efficient tools, or use Lighting to add drama, whether spotlighting products or flooding an entire window. Theatre shows off exuberant and avant-garde displays created to wow passers-by. Quirky windows allow free rein for wild ideas, with spectacular results. This book offers inspiration and guidance to visual merchandisers and retailers who need to create eye-catching window designs that will increase sales.

Confessions of a Window Dresser

Confessions of a Window Dresser
Author: Simon Doonan
Publisher: Studio
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-08-09
Genre: Window dressers
ISBN: 9780141003627

The buzz created by the hardcover of this engaging, tart, saucy, and very frank memoir (Liz Smith) ran from a first serial in W to an Absolut Doonan ad to Hollywood film rights. For twenty years Simon Doonan, the creator of the hottest window displays in the world at Barney's New York, has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion and the most notorious names in art. Whether he's making fun of blondes, sending up Sigmund Freud, or creating caricatures of celebrities, his work has been fearless and entertaining kitsch. Confessions of a Window Dresser illustrates his work in glorious full-color photographs and wickedly witty commentary on the trends and people of the fashion and entertainment world. Here's a dazzling gift of glamour, laughter, and fashion history.