{"id":126090,"date":"2020-01-10T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/galeries-lafayette-flagship-by-big-bjarke-ingels-group-2019-best-of-year-winner-for-department-store-mall\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:53:46","slug":"galeries-lafayette-flagship-by-big-bjarke-ingels-group-2019-best-of-year-winner-for-department-store-mall","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/galeries-lafayette-flagship-by-big-bjarke-ingels-group-2019-best-of-year-winner-for-department-store-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galeries Lafayette Flagship by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Department stores in Paris\u00a0have been as much about spectacle as shopping. Like the city\u2019s boulevards, les grands magasins<\/em> were belle epoque catwalks where the bourgeoisie came to see and be seen. When Galeries Lafayette opened its mag\u00adnificent art nouveau store on Boulevard Haussmann in 1912, it became an icon, both com\u00admercially and architecturally.<\/p>\n

The brand\u2019s new location, in a 1932 building, dazzles contemporary flaneurs. Partners Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Sand of BIG\u00a0–\u00a0Bjarke Ingels Group<\/a> restored the historic cupola and grand staircase, while designing a series of vignettes that unfold across the four-story, 73,200-square-foot flagship. \u201cThe raw space has an almost urban scale and character,\u201d Ingels notes, with room for \u201ceven the wildest interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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