Just one block from the frenetic activity of Turin’s Porta Nuova train station, the Via Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange (or Via Lagrange) is emblematic of the urban revival propelled by the winter Olympics held here in 2006.
Founded in 1879 by German entrepreneur Guillermo Krug, the Relojería Alemana’s first jewelry store still stands on a corner of the Carrer del Colón, amid the labyrinthine tangle of cobbled lanes and alleyways that make up the quaint historical district of Palma de Majorca, Spain.
Fashion Forward: An Italian sense of craft and detail is brought to New York City's major shopping street by David Chipperfield's design for Valentino.
Rene Gonzalez's new Alchemist shop on Miami's Lincoln Road has some tough competition. It stands on a popular plaza opposite a garish movie theater, the Regal South Beach.
Bookstores may be closing right and left in cities all over the world, but in January 2012 Tokyo welcomed Daikanyama Tsutaya Books with an enthusiastic embrace.