Someone needs to write a mystery novel series in which the protagonist is an Anthropologie window designer who devotes his or her life to coming up with walls of empty milk jugs or giant balls of yarn or curtains of drinking straws. Don't you just want to know what these people are thinking and what the rest of their lives are like?

anthropologie is always inspiring. i go in there all the time to get creative ideas for my place & on outfits. one of my favs was how they used cabinet pulls as hooks. last time i saw that they made these huge sunbursts on the walls using matchsticks. probably not the best idea, but it looked neat.

I hate to be a spoil sport, but, I wonder where they got the milk jugs? Do you think they actually rummaged through dumpsters to reclaim? I bet they bought them all. Maybe they had an employee drive to bring in their used ones.

take a look at barneys their theme for the holidays is green.
there is a giant reindeer head made out of soda cans suspended over the main floor.

speaking of-- the editors letter in the most recent (green) issue of Dwell had an excellent article on the trendiness of green...

@wende in phoenix: Yes please!!!!! I was having the same thoughts while looking at the drinking straw fabrications in my local Anthro just a few days ago!!!

i'm pretty sure those are recycled. it's only cool BECAUSE it looks like a recycling project!

I have a friend who had the highly coveted, competitive, and extremely underpaid job of store decorator (or some title like that) at anthropologie. She loved it for the creative opportunities, but it sounds like it was an insanely hard job with really early hours.

i was on the visual team at anthro for a long time (now i freelance there) and a lot of our displays are recycled. we never had the budget to buy that much stuff new so we would often ask people to bring things in.
we had a water bottle display in the window at fifth ave and we were actually going through recycling bins. it's a tough and dirty job but someone has to do it!

I wonder about the Anthropologie store decorators outside of nyc. The displays in nyc are always so eye catching. Here in Austin, the displays have left a bit to be desired so far.

Also a past member of a visual display department, I always suspected that the stores and the Visual heads sort of preyed upon the hunger, creativity and stamina of the fresh-from-college crowd.

I suspect that every time I pass a Barney's or Bergdorf's window change in progress... usually late at night, with lots of skinny kids with glue guns. :)

The restaurant designed by the infamous Tadao Ando-
MORIMOTO in Chelsea features a HUGE wall made of water bottles (filled) inserted by their caps into a metal framed wall..

done a fe years b4 any Window display by Anthropolgie

http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/?m=20061204