Zara's stores have won awards for their decoration and their shop windows.

ECONOMIST: Inditex

Big Box retailers, discounters, off-price retailers and department stores are working hard to capture some of the holiday decoration sales.

FORBES: Insight Into Consumers' Holiday Spending Patterns

The Ecole's architectural commissions illustrated this link: private townhouses for doctors, a coal merchant and a brewer, for example, as well as the construction or (re)decoration of a printing works, grain store, furrier's shop, department stores and, significantly, a church and three banks.

ECONOMIST: Decorative arts