Customers of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann are familiar with the small footbridge on the fifth floor which allows you to be as close as possible to the dome - some days you even have to queue to get there.
Once on the "pontoon", the spectacle, it must be said, is total.
Since the restoration of the immense Art Nouveau work, which has just been completed, it has been close to magic.
From now on, natural light passes through the stained glass windows of Jacques Gruber, master glassmaker from Nancy, and brings out the ironwork and decorations of Louis Majorelle.
We perceive the taste for oriental art of Théophile Bader, founder of Galeries Lafayette, and all the aesthetic demonstration desired at the time of the opening of the big bazaars.
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