By Laurence Haloche (text) and Stanislas Fautré for
Le Figaro Magazine
(photos).
To discover
Paris: the Figaro travel guide
Impatience and curiosity. For more than a decade, Parisians have seen the ghostly facade of the Samaritaine on the banks of the Seine remain in the shadow of a past that seemed to persist in keeping it in limbo. As a precious jewel is kept in the safe, the silhouette of the building designed in 1928 by Henri Sauvage kept the secret of a colossal project: six years of work. What was going on behind the curtain? After Courchevel, Randheli, Saint-Barth and Saint-Tropez, what surprise did the first Urban House in the collection of the LVMH group have in store? The inauguration last June of the sumptuously renovated department store lifted a bit of the veil.
The photo of a room, three videos and information in dribbles were then broadcast.
Nothing more.
Being able to preview the site has proven to be as much a privilege as entering the nave of Notre-Dame.
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