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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.
In 1994, Home Interiors and Gifts was sold to the investment firm of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst in a $1 billion leveraged buyout. [1] [8] The company sold more than $850 million annually in silk and polyester flower arrangements, porcelain puppies and other decorative household items at home parties.
Acadiana Mall (French: Centre commercial de l’Acadiana) is an enclosed regional shopping mall in the city of Lafayette, Louisiana, located at the intersection of Johnston Street (U.S. Route 167) and Ambassador Caffery Parkway (Louisiana Highway 3073).
Downtown Lafayette Historic District is a national historic district located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.Lafayette began in 1825 as a transportation center for the west central area of Indiana.
The Moses Fowler House is located at the corner of 10th and South streets in Lafayette, Indiana.The house is considered the finest example of a large Gothic Revival residence still standing in the United States.
Born on January 22, 1868, to a Jewish family in Vermillionville, Louisiana (today Lafayette), the son of Mary (née Plonsky) and William Louis Bendel. [1] Both his parents were immigrants: his father from Austria, and his mother from Prussia. [1]
Judge Cyrus Ball House, also known as the Ball Mansion and Carriage House, is a historic home located at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.It was built in 1868–1869, and is a two-story, Second Empire style brick dwelling, with a three-story mansard roofed entrance tower.
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.