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As the predominance of the virtual over the tangible continues, more and more of our lives go online to the point that it seems possible to believe that spatial design is becoming obsolete. That being so, the places in which we come together to share collective experiences need to work harder than ever before to remind us of the positive effects of physical space. With that maxim in mind, this publication is right on the money, capturing the mood of the times in experiential design. Coming from Gestalten, the book is high quality with a no-frills approach that lets the projects speak for themselves. The work featured covers a variety of applications ranging from the expected in the early chapters; exhibition and event architecture and interior design, to the unexpected; stage design, multimedia brand concepts, art installations plus a few indefinable examples from leftfield...and an Austrian salt mine. All add up to demonstrate that, in space, anything is actually possible. Staging Spaces main failing, and this is more of a niggle really, is that it suffers by its own remit. By attempting to document a zeitgeist, it inevitably has ended up featuring work created for prestige applications with similar briefs and aesthetic intentions and so any municipal and public sector work that might have increased the variety even further seems lacking. This could suggest that such work is simply not happening in those areas and that, ironically it has been left to the likes of Google and their much quoted office interiors to lead the way but it could mean also that the editors have not spread the net wide enough. Whichever is the correct answer, when taken on its own merits Staging Spaces succeeds as a truly inspirational book and comes highly recommended for creative s working in every field. --Whiteboard Journal