Vivienne Gallery
| Vivienne Gallery | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 2. |
| quarter | Vivienne |
| Beginning | 4, Rue des Petits-Champs and 5, Rue de la Banque |
| The End | 6, Rue Vivienne |
| morphology | |
| length | 176 m |
| width | 3 m |
| history | |
| Emergence | 1823 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 9858 |
The Galerie Vivienne is a covered shopping arcade with a glass roof from the first half of the 19th century in the 2nd arrondissement in Paris . The Vivienne Gallery is a monument worthy of protection ( monument historique ).
location
Galerie Vivienne is located between 4, rue des Petits Champs, 5-7, rue de la Banque and 6, rue Vivienne, in a mixed residential and commercial area near the old national library . Bourse is the closest metro station on Line 3 , which crosses Paris from east to west.
Other passages are nearby: Galerie Colbert ( 2nd arrondissement ), Passage Bourg-l'Abbé (2nd arrondissement) and Passage du Grand-Cerf (2nd arrondissement).
history
The Galerie Vivienne was built in 1823 on behalf of the President of the Marchoux Chamber of Notaries and is connected by a corridor to the Galerie Colbert, which was built shortly thereafter. It is 170 m long and 3 m wide. The architect François Jean Delannoy designed a decor in the neoclassical style with Pompeian painting , floor mosaics and mirrors or window fronts that enhance the impression of the room.
In 1826 the gallery was opened under the name Galerie Marchoux, but was soon renamed Galerie Vivienne. The attractive shops (shoemaker, wine shop, bookstore, tailor, etc.) and the location near the much-frequented Palais Royal ensured a large number of customers. It was not until the construction of the large department stores at the Paris Opera and Madeleine that the Passagen and the Galerie Vivienne collapsed in the middle of the 19th century.
Current condition
After the renovation of the passage in the 1980s, new and attractive shops such as the fashion designers Jean-Paul Gaultier and Yuki Torii have moved into the Galerie Vivienne. The gallery is well frequented and, with the restaurants, offers a wide range of options for visitors.
- Impressions from inside the gallery
Staircase in the Vivienne Gallery
Vivienne Gallery
Panorama of the Vivienne Gallery
literature
- Jean-Claude Delorme, Anne-Marie Dubois: Passages couverts parisiens . Parigrams, Paris 2002 (1st edition Paris 1996), ISBN 2-84096-264-0 .
- Bertrand Lemoine: Les passages couvertes en France . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-905118-21-0 .
Web links
- Galerie Vivienne: Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 23 ″ E