Christmas window

Several retailers in New York City attract shoppers and tourists to their Christmas window displays, including Macy's and Lord & Taylor.

[2] At Christmastime, it is often Spaeth Design that is behind the windows and store displays of many of the nation's major retailers, as well as the lobby displays of some of New York's major hotels and office buildings: the Palace, the Harley, the St. Moritz and the Park Lane hotels, and the Park Avenue Plaza and Gulf and Western office buildings.AM&A's flagship department store in Buffalo, New York was known locally for its Victorian Christmas windows.

In Montreal, James Aird Nesbitt was in charge of the traditional Christmas window displays at the Ogilvy department store.

In 1947, he commissioned German toymaker Steiff to create two animated holiday scenes known as "The Mill in the Forest" and "The Enchanted Village".

[citation needed] Tom Keogh designed the annual Christmas windows for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

[citation needed] In 2011, Anthony Ausgang designed the Christmas windows for the La Rinascente Department Store in Milan with larger-than-life three-dimensional models of his trademark psychedelic cartoon cats.

[9] In Australia, the Sydney department store David Jones presents an annual animated Christmas Window display.

[10] Traditionally these have often featured snowy northern hemisphere Christmas scenarios, but in 2014 the windows are set in a distinctly Australian summer, featuring beach and rainforest scenes,[11] based on the book "Reindeer's Christmas Surprise" by Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Sue De Gennaro.