The saga of department stores.
City of Architecture, Grand Palais RmnEditions| N° d'inventaire | 31362 |
| Format | 21.4 x 32.5 |
| Détails | 288 p., 250 ill., bound |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711880690 |
Exhibition catalog at the City of Architecture and Heritage from November 6, 2024 to April 6, 2025
The birth of department stores and their golden age (1850-1930) has often aroused keen interest and fascinated the imagination. However, their history has very rarely been told over a long period of time, until today, and internationally, taking into account economic, political, sociological, cultural or artistic aspects. This is what this catalog offers, with a multidisciplinary summary and illustrated by illuminating iconography (paintings, prints, photographs, archives) and sometimes unpublished. It thus highlights the diffusion of department stores in a colonial and non-European context, questions the representations of bosses and employees, and in particular the place of women, addresses consumption patterns from the Second Empire to the emergence of e-commerce, and deals with the relationship of department stores with the development of shopping, the art of window display, the diffusion of ready-to-wear, advertising and cinema. These themes are structured through the prism of the history of architecture: buildings designed to dazzle, places of staging and life, department stores shape cities and society, establishing themselves as temples of consumption and emotion.
Exhibition catalog at the City of Architecture and Heritage from November 6, 2024 to April 6, 2025
The birth of department stores and their golden age (1850-1930) has often aroused keen interest and fascinated the imagination. However, their history has very rarely been told over a long period of time, until today, and internationally, taking into account economic, political, sociological, cultural or artistic aspects. This is what this catalog offers, with a multidisciplinary summary and illustrated by illuminating iconography (paintings, prints, photographs, archives) and sometimes unpublished. It thus highlights the diffusion of department stores in a colonial and non-European context, questions the representations of bosses and employees, and in particular the place of women, addresses consumption patterns from the Second Empire to the emergence of e-commerce, and deals with the relationship of department stores with the development of shopping, the art of window display, the diffusion of ready-to-wear, advertising and cinema. These themes are structured through the prism of the history of architecture: buildings designed to dazzle, places of staging and life, department stores shape cities and society, establishing themselves as temples of consumption and emotion.