Galeries Lafayette Champs Elysees
Paris, France
Client
Groupe Galeries Lafayette
Typology
Retail
Size m2/ft2
6,800 / 73,195
Status
Completed
“When we inherited this incredible space from 1932, most of the beautiful materials and Art Deco elements were covered with black painted drywall, the skylight was blinded by sheetrock and the connections to the outside had disappeared. We focused on the heart of the building and preserved all of its precious materials and refined details, wrapping them in gallery-like spaces. The historical architecture is supplemented by the raw qualities of ceiling heights and abundance of daylight.”Jakob Sand - Partner, BIG
GROUND FLOOR — The ground floor creates a bright new urban living room for Parisians and visitors who can continue to the food court in the basement or explore upper floors for shopping.
LEVEL 1 — A continuous golden ring of perforated metal wraps around all of the columns and creates a series of rooms and alcoves facing the atrium. Throughout the store, furniture doubles as product displays and seating.
LEVEL 2 — The upper levels of the store are more refined and continue the idea of furniture as artifact. The top floor features a series of suspended glass vitrines that look like independent objects and can host a variety of experiences and activities visible from the lower levels.
“Working with a family and a company that can look back 100 years gives you – not only the possibility – but actually the responsibility to attempt to look as far ahead as you can look back. With the advent and omnipresence of online retail, the urban department store’s role and relevance must be renewed as the urban agora. We humans are social beings – and more than ever do we need a forum for collective intimacy – where we can’t just get what we want by clicking on it – but where we can engage with others in urban environments that are visually and physically stimulating to all the senses.”Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
Partner in Charge
Bjarke Ingels
Jakob Sand
Project Manager
Karim Muallem
Gabrielle Nadeau
Project Leader
Xavier Delanoue
Project Leader, Interiors
Francesca Portesine
Pauline Lavie-Luong
Project Team
Daniel Sundlin
Jakob Lange
Andreas Klok Pedersen
Agla Egilsdottir
Terrence Chew
Thomas Smith
Tracy Sodder
Janie Green
Alvaro Garcia Mendive
Amro Abdelsalam
Anis Souissi
Aurelie Frolet
Bart Ramakers
Carl Pettersson
Catalina Rivera Rothgaenger
Clementine Huck
Dimitrie Grigorescu
Emily Pickett
Enea Michelesio
Ethan Duffey
Etienne Duval
Filip Milovanovic
Francisco Salazar
Teodor Cristian Fratila
Gerhard Pfeiler
Hugo Yun Tong Soo
Joanna M. Lesna
Katarzyna Swiderska
Ksymena Borczynska
Laurent De Carniere
Lucas Stein
Lucian Mihail Racovitan
Marie Lançon
Miguel Sousa Rebelo
Monika Dauksaite
Paula Domka
Philip Rufus Knauf
Quentin Blaising
Rahul Girish
Ramona Montecillo
Raphael Ciriani
Sergi Sauras
Taylor Fulton
Thomas Sebastian Krall
Tomas Karl Minör
Tianqi Zhang
Ye Sul Cho
José Carlos De Silva
Hye-Min Cha
Anna Juzak
Christian Lopez
Emine Halefoglu
Gabrielė Ubarevičiūtė
Josiah Poland
Kyle Thomas David Tousant
Stefano Zugno
Malgorzata Mutkowska
Awards
Prix Versailles Europe 2020 Award Winner, Shopping Malls
Collaborators
SRA Architects
SETEC
AR-C
SNAIK
Theater project
Cabinet Vanguard
BIG Interiors