Stylish Steel: "Grands Magasins"
Parisian stores famous for their glorious steel-and-glass domes

Le Printemps (Boulevard Haussmann)	La Samaritaine

Galeries Lafayette (Boulevard Haussmann)

See also: http://www.paris.org/gg/galeries.lafayette; http://www.glparis.com/magasin/haussman/hauscoup.html; Paris Art Nouveau - Buildings; http://www.printemps.fr/gmagasin/histoire/histoir2.htm; http://www.parisdigest.com/menus/shopping.htm.

All photographs made in 1996-1999 by Maarten de Smit