Winning combinations

It was a high-stakes gamble. Could the lighting for the Brookstone store in the Venetian Hotel's Grand Hall of Shops beat the odds and be the big drawing card to stimulate traffic? Brookstone exemplifies good taste, high performance, and contemporary design. How could this image reach out and attract shoppers, surrounded as it is by a Las Vegas-ized version of the Pearl of the Adriatic?

James Mansour of Mansour Design, New York City-based store planners and designers, hit on the idea