Instead, new cars will be displayed in the 18-foot-high showroom and cars in inventory will be stored below ground, while cars to be serviced will be dropped off at a reception pavilion and driven to the service department or parking level, both of them also underground.
But G.M.'s better performance is not translating to higher showroom prices, even as it has been publicizing the healthy sales of its overhauled lineup of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, which were intended to help the company gain both market share and improve its profits.
A 24-inch-wide, sporelike sphere, the fixture looked like something out of an Italian high-design showroom, circa 1962.
Mr Mikitani plans to use Pinterest as a high-gloss showroom to tempt people to Rakuten's many online shops.
There's not the salesman sparkle about Furnish that you might find in a conventional high-street showroom.
"The upper floors will be upscale office, with a high-concept showroom boutique and retail at the base," Mr. Sitt said.
Arguably the premier high-end showroom for furniture designed in New York City, which is to say that nearly everything on the floor was designed and built in Brooklyn.
This year, the neighborhood reached another benchmark when Voos, an expensive high-end showroom with furniture designed almost entirely in Brooklyn, opened a few blocks away.
But the Sharps Pixley emporium claims to be the first high-street showroom and also offers clients the option of a safe deposit box on site.
It has a high-ceilinged showroom for retail customers on the first floor, practice rooms on the second floor and a legendary room in the basement for its fleet of concert pianos for professional pianists.
For example, by foregoing car dealerships and setting up high tech showrooms next to well-known retail stores, Tesla is able to communicate directly with and engage an audience that might not otherwise would have considered visiting a car dealer.
