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In 1870 Ernest Cognacq opened La Samaritaine, on the corner of Rue du Pont-Neuf and the Rue de la Monnaie. [4] [5] In 1872 Cognacq married Marie-Louise Jaÿ and they begun to manage the store together. [5] The interiors of magasin one (magasin means "store" in French) were redesigned in 1891, the project was overseen by architect Frantz Jourdain.
Frantz Jourdain (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃ts ʒuʁdɛ̃]; 3 October 1847 – 22 August 1935) was a Belgian architect and author.He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store built in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in three stages between 1904 and 1928.
In 1869 a much larger building was built for the store at 24 rue de Sèvres in Paris's Rive Gauche (Left Bank) this new building was designed by Louis-Auguste Boileau with Alexandre Laplanche ornamenting Boileau's ironwork. Louis-Charles Boileau son of Louis-Auguste Boileau also continued designing for the store in the 1870s. [5]
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PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron joined luxury magnate Bernard Arnault on Monday to inaugurate the La Samaritaine department store, marking the culmination of a 16-year renovation ...
Printemps was founded in 1865; La Samaritaine was founded in 1869 by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jay, a new Tapis Rouge in 1867, La Ville de Saint-Denis, with the first elevator in France (1869); La Paix; Les Nouvelles Galeries; Les Magasins Dufayel (1890); the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville; and Galeries Lafayette, founded by Alphonse Kahn in ...
Galeries Lafayette (French pronunciation: [ɡalʁi lafajɛt]) is an upmarket French department store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates a number of locations in France and other countries.
It was the first department store that concentrated on luxury goods, and tried to both provide bargains and be snobbish. Other department stores quickly appeared: Printemps in 1865, the Grand Bazaar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV) in 1869, and La Samaritaine in 1870. They were soon imitated around the world. [44]