Shops and Showrooms (Hip Interiors S.) - Tapa dura

Retail design is a unique branch of architecture and interior design, in which fantasy and imagination often take centre stage. Creativity is often encouraged in the race to lure customers in an ever more competitive market. Hip Interiors: Shops and Showrooms, offers a visual feast of the most compelling new shops and showrooms of Asia-Pacific - a hotbed of development, and a region that has never been more intriguing. Readers will find themselves immersed in captivating, richly coloured photographs. Enlightening text takes them behind the window displays and into the minds of the both the designers and shop owners. Organized by project, Hip Interiors: Shops and Showrooms the book showcases 25 innovative and exciting new retail interiors that are sure to inspire ideas and creativity in both designer and the enthusiast alike. A stylish layout complements this collection of inspirational interiors, which are undeniably contemporary and forward-thinking in their execution.

Kelley Cheng is the editorial director of Page One Publishing. She holds degrees in architecture and architectural studies from the National University of Singapore. Narelle Yabuka is an editor with Page One Publishing, and holds degrees in environmental design and interior architecture from Curtin University of Technology, Perth. Together, they have collaborated on several architectural and interior design books, and a bi-monthly design lifestyle magazine, Ish. They are based in Singapore.