Paris: La Samaritaine

La Samaritaine (currently owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) - the historic department store in Paris.

The history of this store dates back to 1870, when Ernest Cognacq opened a small shop that over the years became a 70.000m² block combining Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles of its facades.

The Japanese studio SANAA has designed a new futuristic facade of undulating glass that marks the entrance to the department store which became a mixed-use development and contains now a hotel, offices, housing, and a kindergarten.

Its double glass skin reflects in its folds the Parisian ornament and the life of the city that surrounds it.

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