Restaurant Design Category Page 1
Dramatic Wine Walls
Wine walls create dramatic features in many popular Denver restaurants. Designed to increase sales, the wine walls are both elegant and functional. What’s behind the rise of this appealing trend?
Retail and Restaurant Trends for 2011:
The U.S. Census Bureau reported this month that retail and food service spending increased 6.6% from 2009 to 2010. Davis Wince believes several hot retail and restaurant trends, ranging from new tech to re-imagining old concepts, will continue to help these numbers improve throughout 2011.
Pre-design Architectural Services and Retail Location
The key to selecting your next retail space is location, location, location. And pre-design services. Even the most ideal location may have hidden problems that drive up build-out costs, create store design liabilities, or even negatively impact daily operations and profitability.
Location-Based Social Networks Increase Retail Customer Enagement:
Dominant storefront design, creative window display, and iconic signage will always be essential elements of a store’s visual marketing strategy. But a growing pool of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) apps, each with its own unique twist, are helping business owners project their retail brand through walls, across city blocks, and outside the mall parking lot.
Retail and restaurant design for challenging locations
Architects and Designers have been coordinating their design visions with program implementation and site evaluation since the beginning of time. Michelangelo’s Piazza de Campidoglio immediately comes to mind. Fast forward 350 years and architects and designers are still contemplating the same issues in modern retail spaces.
Sustainable Retail Design
Local sourcing of finish materials, energy efficient lighting, and specification of recycled materials are just a few of the sustainable strategies Davis Wince brings to every retail solution.
