Funfair VM: A/W 14/15 trend

Oasis

Traditional summer themes were reworked for the forthcoming season at this month's autumn/winter press previews, where the funfair emerged as a key trend for VM.

Miniature art gallery: Saks Fifth Avenue, New York

New York department store Saks Fifth Avenue has transformed its windows into an art gallery, where miniature 2D figures peer at photographs of luxury products.

Moskva: Urban Space at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014

Moscow's installation at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale highlights elementary shifts in architecture throughout the city's past, and reveals new urban possibilities. The exhibition features inverted prisms that hang from the ceiling with photographs of familiar buildings attached to them.

Redaelli: Live from Proposte 2014

Italian textile brand Redaelli wowed visitors with its range of digitally printed velvets at the opening day of prestigious textile show Proposte.

Antonio Marras interprets Segno Italiano

During the Milan Salone del Mobile, Italian fashion designer Antonio Marras interpreted Segno Italiano with Volo a Planare, a fantasy installation in which everything is offset, stretched and soaring.

Living breakfast tables at Republic of Fritz Hansen

Republic of Fritz Hansen used creative visual merchandising to bring its Analog dining table to life during Milan Design Week, projecting videos of a busy breakfast onto the tabletop surface to make it appear constantly in use.

Missoni Wonderland: Milan Design Week

Missoni wowed visitors at Milan Design Week this year with a spectacular display of its signature zigzag and vibrant floral patterns.

Cos x Nendo: Space Dipped Shirts

Staying in tune with Cos’ clean and sophisticated design aesthetic, Nendo transforms Cos’ essential classic white shirt into a minimalist installation at Milan Design Week 2014.

Live from Milan: Moooï's new exhibition

Moooï's 2014 Milan exhibition pays tribute to works of the past while promoting its new collection. Products have been set up in room sets against large-scale photographs of palatial and historic spaces by Italian photographer Massimo Listri. The images add a sense of grandeur to the event, while highlighting the concept of heritage dear to Marcel Wanders.

Conversation Pieces: an all pink room at Milan Design Week 2014

This all pink room created by students from Head haute école d'Art et de design Genève is a dazzling highlight of Ventura Lambrate, Milan's experimental design district.

Koskela, Sydney: What's in store

We're feeling inspired after a trip to Sydney design store Koskela, an old factory space that has been transformed into a studio, shop and restaurant. The weathered walls create a fantastic backdrop for the eclectic mix of locally sourced furniture, textiles, decorative accessories, tableware and gifts.

Lane Crawford celebrates Chinese New Year in-store

Department store Lane Crawford worked with 12 creative talents to design ceramic horse ornaments to celebrate Chinese New Year in its stores across Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Lasvit at Maison & Objet, January 2014

Lasvit has suspended some of its show-stopping lighting pieces above giant tilted mirrors for Maison & Objet, allowing visitors to see the bases and details of each installation.

Colour-blocking at CES 2014

Innovative Technology

Colour-blocking was a key direction for merchandising across CES last week, with vivid tones and different textures combined to create compelling displays for headphones, earbuds, phone cases and speakers.

Christmas 2013: shop window trends in Milan

De Padova 

At Christmas, Milan’s window displays are even more stunning than usually. This year, three trends emerged from the decked-out windows of the city's most stylish streets, such as Via Montenapoleone and Corso Venezia.

Lord & Taylor: Christmas 2013 windows

Inspired by vintage style in New York City, Lord & Taylor's windows depict a traditional Holiday scene, created with 2D drawings and small figurines. The story starts with city residents preparing for the Holidays with festive décor and moves into a scene from Lord & Taylor, where customers are shopping for gifts from overflowing shelves.

Galeries Lafayette's Christmas windows

Galeries Lafayette's scheme celebrates the forthcoming release of Beauty and the Beast, starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux. Five window displays replicate sets from the film, featuring the Beast's mysterious mansion and majestic hallway, the grandiose dining room in his castle and Beauty's bed chamber.

An interactive digital screen encourages customers to move petals around with their hands in order to discover the images behind.

WinterWonder: La Rinascente's Christmas lights in Milan

It has become a tradition for La Rinascente to celebrate Christmas by giving the city an artistic installation; and this year, the Milan department store has entrusted its windows to designer Moritz Waldemeyer.

WinterWonder is his interpretation of the classic iconography of Christmas: a vortex of 1,300 laser-cut plastic snowflakes that soar beyond the confines of the windows into the entire portico.

Petit h x Studio Toogood at Hermès, London

Photo by Andrew Meredith

Created to launch the Petit h concept at Hermès' flagship Bond Street store, Studio Toogood's dramatic blood-red installation references craftsmanship and British traditions with a sense of humour.

Christmas Market at Republic of Fritz Hansen in Milan

It’s already Christmas time in Milan. The Republic of Fritz Hansen store at Corso Garibaldi 77 is presenting its special Christmas Market, an international selection of new brands and young designers with products ready to be this season's must-have gifts.