The Windows of Buck House: Fabulous Fictional Females

The Windows of Buck House: Fabulous Fictional Females presents 22 of the Buck House window installations and the characters who inhabited them. Each chapter is devoted to a single character, beautifully photographed in full color and accompanied by her autobiographical declaration. Professionally, they are businesswomen, artists, scientists and explorers. The cast includes: Anna Force, New York ad executive (1965), Sheelock Holmes, London detective (1900); Goldy Banks, Geneva investment banker (1974); Rosa Valencia Fu Del Torres, Barcelona bull fighter (1961); Maddy Tscientist, German chemist (1961) and Blue Heel, Philadelphia animation artist (2010). These are stylish, determined and powerful women driven to take the world by storm they had moxie!

A successful artist and design entrepreneur, Buck launched a series of bi-monthly theatrically-inspired window installations featuring a parade of feisty, fearless female characters that set the stage for the retail adventures happening inside. Buck and her small but intrepid team carefully curated and crafted the exquisitely detailed vignettes. The street-front window was a compact 6 ft. by 6 ft. jewel-box that the Buck House crew used to produce the larger-than-life profiles of these particularly worldly women. For faithful fans and passersby the creations were a fanciful nose pressed against the glass look at a singular group of courageous and engaging heroines.

The Windows of Buck House: Fabulous Fictional Females is both a visual feast and a time capsule... a beautiful and lasting chronicle of an idea, a dream, and an artistic achievement that blurs the line between fantasy and reality, writes Ken Carbone, founder and chief creative director of Carbone s eponymous design and branding firm, in his foreword to the book.