Underground & cool · Department-store experience · €
Le Bon Marché
The world's first department store, opened 1852, with structural work attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm. The draw now is the architecture: glazed roofs and Andrée Putman's crisscrossing 1989 escalators rising through the atrium. La Grande Épicerie next door is a food hall vast enough to browse like a gallery.
Stand under the central atrium to watch the Putman escalators, then graze the Grande Épicerie without spending a euro.
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