Yesterday I ran 🏃♀️ to see a new exhibit, The Department Stores.
Nothing like going shopping 🛍️ to feel better. This is the second part of the April exhibit I showed you from the musée des Arts Décoratifs/MAD.
Perhaps.
A wonderful segment on the stained glass cupolas still in les Grands Magasins on boulevard Haussmann.
The Department Stores is on till April 6, 2025.
fascinating!
ReplyDeleteAlways "good stuff" Found Department Stores particularly engaging. Thanks...
ReplyDeleteSo interesting! Wish I were there to see it! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Love the information of course, but also have to say you really know how to make your watercolours work for you! The bloom on those dresses is perfectly placed. You commanded …. the paints obeyed! 😍🤩…😘from🇨🇦
ReplyDelete😊 Thank you! the way to a watercolorist’s heart ❤️
DeleteWay back at UC Berkeley in 1976 I wrote my senior thesis on “The Rise of the Department Store”……. I wonder if I could even find it it now😳……anyway, thanks for the motivation to get to Paris before March!
ReplyDeleteVery perceptive of you
DeleteYour thesis was in the exhibit 👍
Fascinating ...and wonderful post!! Thank you!! Patty, Minneapolis
ReplyDeleteYou’re welcome Patty ❤️
DeleteI hear about "retail therapy." Thank you for your contribution. I'm going thrift shopping now because tablescaping is my therapy and I need "non orange" things for my November table as I did for October
ReplyDeleteAnd orange 🍊 is such a big color in France 🇫🇷
DeleteThink Hermes, Bon Marché, so many chocolatiers !
Hard to avoid…
Lynne - Oui! Rien d'Orange !!!
ReplyDeleteRien = nothing!
ReplyDeleteThank you for post. We'll be in Paris in February and now this will top our list of exhibitions to see.
ReplyDeleteYou won’t be disappointed ❤️
DeleteOh those corset! Can you imagine but a very elderly relative years ago could not change the habit of wearing something with 'bones' and ties every day even when she was so tiny she didn't need it and the tugging and pulling to get into it. Even in the 60s girdles were an important undergarment for the proper lady plus those tabs for stockings in the display. Those were the days! Thank you and I love department stores in France!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memories 🙏❤️
DeleteCarol, the painting is fabulous. You always have the best places to visit in Paris. R
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post on a fabulous exhibit! It's fascinating to see how people dressed and what they bought during those times. It was such an event just to go shopping - luxurious!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a fun exhibit, and to learn about how new and different the department store was. Love you pairing of the elegant ladies!
ReplyDeleteInteresting world, that of the department stores...SW
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