There’s a hilarious tweet I saw once that’s perfect for this picture but it’s private now so instead of linking to it I’ve just stuck it in a photo note, please enjoy
WEEK 38 – Carriage Crossing Macy’s, Set II
As we make our way off to the left – back to the jewelry and cosmetics departments in the center of the store – we land upon the next major style of ceiling and lighting that Parisian installed: here, a completely smooth drop ceiling – no ceiling tiles to be found here! – joined with a very unique mix of interspersed wide and short lights, the wide ones with light bars, the short ones with individual spotlights (not dissimilar to ones found in the bases of the hanging pendant lights we saw two weeks ago). Not only does the lighting feel fancy (probably mostly by sheer virtue of being new and unique, more so than actually being fancy, but you get the point), I also very much like the visual effect created by the interesting, maybe-even-irregular-in-places (?) pattern.
Besides the lighting, also of note in this shot is the elevator bank – that box you see there on the right, to the left of the frosted-glass-paneled fitting room – as well as the men’s fragrance department, essentially the only non-women’s department to be found downstairs. To me, the placement makes well enough sense, as it’s common to have men’s fragrances simply sold alongside the much larger women’s fragrance selection; but I do recognize that some department stores may have men’s fragrances in a separate area, in a perhaps more appropriate home near menswear. Is that arrangement common? And which do y’all think Parisian should have gone for here?
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
There’s a hilarious tweet I saw once that’s perfect for this picture but it’s private now so instead of linking to it I’ve just stuck it in a photo note, please enjoy
WEEK 38 – Carriage Crossing Macy’s, Set II
As we make our way off to the left – back to the jewelry and cosmetics departments in the center of the store – we land upon the next major style of ceiling and lighting that Parisian installed: here, a completely smooth drop ceiling – no ceiling tiles to be found here! – joined with a very unique mix of interspersed wide and short lights, the wide ones with light bars, the short ones with individual spotlights (not dissimilar to ones found in the bases of the hanging pendant lights we saw two weeks ago). Not only does the lighting feel fancy (probably mostly by sheer virtue of being new and unique, more so than actually being fancy, but you get the point), I also very much like the visual effect created by the interesting, maybe-even-irregular-in-places (?) pattern.
Besides the lighting, also of note in this shot is the elevator bank – that box you see there on the right, to the left of the frosted-glass-paneled fitting room – as well as the men’s fragrance department, essentially the only non-women’s department to be found downstairs. To me, the placement makes well enough sense, as it’s common to have men’s fragrances simply sold alongside the much larger women’s fragrance selection; but I do recognize that some department stores may have men’s fragrances in a separate area, in a perhaps more appropriate home near menswear. Is that arrangement common? And which do y’all think Parisian should have gone for here?
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)