I braved the metro today, riding the #7 literally like a sardine. Luckily my destination, Galeries Lafayette, was only 3 stops away.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the flagship store on Blvd Haussman, it is one of the most elegant department stores ever built. Galeries Lafayette has a beautiful glass and steel dome at its' center, and an Art Nouveau staircase built in 1912.
To my delight and surprise, the windows of the stores have already been transformed into magical winter scenes, some windows with animated and moving objects, others, stationary objects, but elegant.
Seeing the windows brought me back to my youth, when I was a child living in New York. Waiting patiently for the marvelous and mysterious windows of Lord & Taylor's, and Saks Fifth Avenue, to be unveiled.
Whether you like to be a consumer or not, and celebrate this time of year, you have to admit, that the holiday decorations can make it just a dazzling time of the year.
1 comments:
dear elizabeth - you are making me ache for Paris - I shall listen to my French tapes in the car and think of you. glad you are having such a wonderful time
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by the way - I think the guards at the Louvre are instructed to make you walk all over the museum before you find what it is you were trying to see...
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