The exhibit is the brainchild of Flagler Museum CEO and Director Amanda Skier and Chief Curator Campbell Mobley, with help from Simon Doonan, former creative director of the old Barney's New York.

Department stores once sold necessities. Now, many are struggling to remain in business amid the rise of online shopping.

“It was very shocking,” says Öztürk, who runs London-based Oza Design with Alexandre Simeray. “I was like, ‘There’s no way we can do something like that.’ It was the ugliest office you’d seen in your ...

"Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of post-war philosophies ...