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Resorts International Hotel & Casino - Atlantic City, NJ (1978)

Designed by Valerian S. Rybar

Selections from the book, Restaurant & Shop Facades (1994) by publisher Shotenkenchiku-Sha

CD compact disc Shop 'Tsutaya' - Neyagawa, Osaka - designed by Seishi Kondo

2. Gallery Hikosen - Kichijoji, Tokyo - designed by Jo Oda, Shinpei Owaki

3. Chinese restaurant 'China Blue' - Amagasaki, Hyogo - designed by Shin Takamatsu

4. Chinaware shop 'China China' - Aoyama, Tokyo - designed by Edward Suzuki

5. Café QUEST & Terre - Mito, Ibaraki - designed by Kazuhiro Nishino

6. Children's boutique 'Laforet Dear Kids' - Jingumae, Tokyo - designed by Null Haus Co., Ltd.

7. Disco 'Ronde Club' - Akasaka, Tokyo - designed by Sumio Yoshino

8. Restaurant 'La Table de Kiriko' - Sumiyoshi, Yokohama - designed by Setsuo Kitaoka

9. Disco 'Acropolis' - Tsubaki-cho, Nagoya - designed by Hiroshi Hiraki

Surrealist office space in a preserved/adaptive reuse of a 1907 church - Oklahoma City, OK (early 1990s)

Designed by HTB, Inc.

Included the third image since it's an example of a surreal, mostly forgotten trend in postmodern spaces: adding mannequins/contemporary 'statues' as a part of the overall decor (outside of their more typical applications in store windows, modeling clothing in department stores, etc.); in this case construction workers perpetually 'repairing' the old church facade.

Elvira's 'cave' room (1990s)

"I call this room "the cave." Pretty creative, bub? It's the one room in my house where I can bang out and really be me. It's dark, creepy and the waterfall outside the window gives it that damp, musty feeling I crave. And talk about impressing your friends... just break out the ol' shackles and it's a party!" - Elvira

Private Residence in Northeast Ohio (early 1990s)

Designed by Wilson Architectural Group & Mark Wyant & Associates

The rare double-tiered conversation pit! The design is a mix of Memphis & Monochrome Luxe

Foodlife - forested food hall in the Water Tower Place Mall - Chicago, IL (1993)

Designed by Marve Cooper Design & Dorf Associates, Foodlife was part of the Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises group of restaurants/food courts, and was one of the first in the new wave of food halls that would take off in earnest in the 2000s & 2010s.

A variety of commercial & residential Trompe-l'œil murals by artist Bonnie Siracusa from the 1990s

Found on her website, and the book 'The Kitchen & Bath Color Book' by Melanie & John Aves (1999)

PacSun prototype store in the Galleria at Tyler Mall - Riverside, CA (2005)

Designed by Gensler

Scanned from Stores of the Year 16 by Martin Pegler (2008)

'Cafe Site' cybercafé on 'Media Street', part of the subterranean Samsung Plaza mall underneath Samsung headquarters - Seoul, South Korea (late 1990s)

Designed by JGA, Inc.

Selections from the May 1988 issue of Shopping Center World Magazine

Picnic Place food court at the Manhattan Town Center

2. Movie theater at Sunrise Mall in Corpus Christi, TX

3. Unknown mall/store interior by Donohoe, O'Brien & Company, Inc.

4. Lakeland Square food court

5. Regis Hairstylists storefront

6. Regis Hairstylists interior

7. Ad for the chain of record stores, Record Bar

8. Information booth at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, created from an antique gondola

9. Ad for Record Town, a record store part of Trans World Music

Solarium kitchen, designed by Four Seasons Greenhouses (1990s)

Lake City Primary School - Lake City, SC (design/completion 1994/1996)

Designed by LS3P Associates, Ltd.

Grand Lux Cafe at the Venetian Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas, NV (1999)

Sort-of a spin-off concept from The Cheesecake Factory, similarly designed in that extravagant 'Old World Luxe/McTuscan' style very popular from the late 90s to the onset of the Great Recession

Designed by Rick McCormack (internal Cheesecake Factory designer) & Teresa Kelly

Freelance - shoe store - 124 Prince Street, Soho, New York City, NY (opened Sept. 1992)

Designed by John Eagar (or Edgar, not sure)

This is such a specifically late 80's - early 90's look; I don't know what it would be called -- has elements of Whimsicraft, maybe Whimsigoth, and a style I've been trying to pin down for a while; like a whimsical, theatrical, handcrafted version of a French boudoir?

Legal Sea Foods - Sunrise, FL (1999)

“Legal Sea Foods is a 10,000-square-foot restaurant that seats 350 guests. To maximize the vast ocean of space, Dorf Associates created a subterranean-themed atmosphere.

On the exterior, a 30-foot-tall illuminated fish and globe pylon constructed of metallic painted aluminum marks the dramatic entrance. Inside, a 10-foot abstract backlit schooner, with stainless-steel riggings, marine-wood details and a moving-wave light projector, takes center stage.

Sea creatures can be found at every turn. A railing dividing the dining and reception rooms is an abstracted eel swimming through a net. And by the raw bar, two tones of blue linoleum flooring, cut into a free-form design, are embedded with "schools" of stainless-steel fish. Behind the bar, curved wine racks evoke waves.

Curved banquettes divide the bar and dining areas. The millwork, composed of horizontal wood bands, mimics the deck of a sailing ship. And throughout the dining room, abstracted fish floor lamps uplight floating stainless-steel panels.”

Designed by Dorf Associates Interior Design Inc. of NYC

Cameron Toll shopping center - Edinburgh, Scotland (opened Oct. 1984)

Designed by Michael Laird & Partners of Edinburgh

Mainly falls under the very flashy late 1970s-early 1980s Geo-Glam design style, with some touches of that Primary Color High-Tech look

The Enchanted Forest toy & stationery shop - 85 Mercer St., NYC (opened 1984, these images are from 1994, closed sometime around 2003-5)

From a 2001 writeup in the NY Daily News:

"It’s a jungle inside The Enchanted Forest, one of the oldest and last independent stores in Soho. The nearly 20-year-old wonderland specializes in toys and puppets, celebrating its passion for nature and love of childhood. A giant tree stands tall in the center of the store, surrounded by bears and monkeys. Stuffed animals peer down from the second floor. Vines are everywhere, entangling baskets filled with simple pleasures."

Website from 2001