Where La Samaritaine was pleased to contribute !
“Industry and commerce, drawn into a frantic race for competition, were the first to get their hands on everything that could attract attention. They admirably felt that a window display, that a department store must be a spectacle. » Fernand Léger, 1924.
Through three main axes: the transformation of the capital under the Second Empire, the exhibition of goods in the street, among small merchants or in department stores, and finally, behind the scenes, the exhibition brings together more than 200 pieces of art and documents including images from the Samaritaine photographic collections.
The opportunity to review or discover some of the oldest preserved photos of the department store during the Belle Epoque, around 1910, with views of the glass-roofed hall or the salespeople in their departments, in the expedition service or in the refectory.
