La Samaritaine

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Main building "La Samaritaine", magasin 2 , 2006
magazine 1 , corner of rue du Pont Neuf and rue de la Monnaie, 2013

La Samaritaine has been a Parisian department store with an upscale range and luxury goods since 1869 . “The Samaritaine is open 364 days a year. It is only closed on May 1st. ”With 48,000 m² of retail space , in 2005 it was the largest department store in Paris. It is a four-part building ensemble and is located in the 1st arrondissement on the right bank of the Seine at Pont Neuf . It has been owned by the French luxury goods group LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SA La Samaritaine since 2001was closed in 2005 for fire protection reasons and then renovated. The reopening took place on June 23, 2021.

LVMH had the entire complex redesigned with a mixed use of shops, offices, day-care centers and apartments. The Art Deco building on the banks of the Seine ( magasin 2 ) contains a luxury hotel owned by LVMH subsidiary Cheval Blanc . The complex also includes “a day nursery and almost 100 social housing”. Conservation Legal actions against a new, ground-glass -like facade design of magasin 4 interrupted for two years the construction work. The new opening has been postponed again and again.

history

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Marie-Louise Jaÿ and Ernest Cognacq
Site plan of the four buildings

The founder Ernest Cognacq (1839–1928) started out as a street dealer in ties on the Pont Neuf . His wife Marie-Louise Jaÿ (1838–1925) had previously been the first saleswoman in the costume department of the Bon Marché . In 1869, Cognacq rented his first small boutique in a café on the corner building between Rue du Pont-Neuf and Rue de la Monnaie in front of the Pont Neuf that flows into it . A year later he was able to buy up the café and expand the shop, which he named La Samaritaine . In 1872 he married Marie-Louise Jaÿ, whom he had known since 1856. Cognacq was based on the sales methods of Aristide Boucicaut , but gave the department heads great powers.

From 1883 to 1933 La Samaritaine was expanded several times, mainly between 1903 and 1907 by the Art Nouveau architect Frantz Jourdain and in 1933 in the Art Deco style by Henri Sauvage . House 2 ( magasin 2 ) is now fully listed , while the triangular house 3 between the streets Rue de Rivoli , Rue du Pont-Neuf and Rue de Boucher only has a facade and roof (according to the Arrêté en France du 25 juillet 1990 ). Behind house 2 ( magasin 2 ) there is a fourth shop.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the department store advertised with the motto: “On trouve tout à la Samaritaine” (Eng. “In Samaritaine you can find everything”). The closure of the nearby central wholesale market Les Halles in 1969 and its relocation to the outskirts of Paris resulted in a significant loss of customers. After losses in the 1990s, La Samaritaine was sold by the managing owner Georges Renand to the luxury goods group LVMH from Bernard Arnault for almost 230 million euros in January 2001 , LVMH had also acquired the Bon Marché beforehand . Despite a business realignment, losses increased.

The roof café offers an excellent view of the city panorama. An all-round etching on the round parapet explained the respective outlook (1994).

After an inspection by the police prefecture in June 2005, the store was closed due to fire protection problems. The management then announced that it would cease operations for at least six years due to the necessary renovation work. Two independent reports from the trade unions and several architects came to the conclusion that the department store would only have had to be closed for 18 months to correct the security deficiencies. In addition, the unions accused the company management of having known about the deficiencies for a long time and of having increased the fire risk even further by setting up additional storage space without a permit. The fire risk serves as a pretext for closing an unprofitable company. The then mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, assured, however, that the Samaritaine would definitely remain a business.

Redesign by LVMH

In June 2008 LVMH presented a usage concept according to which the building should be converted into a luxury hotel, offices and also some social housing by 2013.

The then Deputy Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo , confirmed in an interview in July 2009 that the Paris City and Regional Council was discussing the conversion of La Samaritaine into a luxury hotel and other facilities.

In April 2010 the LVMH management decided to commission the Japanese architecture firm SANAA with the redesign of the building ensemble. The fully listed La Samaritaine ( magasin 2 ) has been converted into a luxury hotel by LVHM subsidiary Cheval Blanc , while shops, offices, apartments and day-care centers are planned in the other buildings.

The Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been responsible for the overall planning since 2010 and published its designs in June 2011. The head building of magasin 4 on Rue de Rivoli was to be given a modern, semi-transparent facade.

Monument protection associations sued the proposed facade design before the competent administrative court ( Tribunal administratif ) and won in May 2014 in the first instance and on January 5, 2015 in the second instance before the cour administrative d'appel de Paris ( court of appeal ). On June 19, 2015, the State Council decided in the last instance that the renovation plans did not constitute a violation of the obligation to integrate into the cityscape and lifted the construction freeze.

origin of the name

La Samaritaine pumping station , 1742
Pont Neuf with pump tower (left), 1777, Nicolas Raguenet

La Samaritaine was the name of a water pump for the water supply to the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries at Pont Neuf , which was built on the orders of King Henry IV according to the plans of the Flemish Jean Lintlaër. It was the first hydraulic water pump in Paris. It was rebuilt by Robert de Cotte between 1712 and 1719 and then renovated by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Ange-Jacques Gabriel .

The pump building was decorated with a relief depicting the biblical story of an encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's fountain ( Jn 4,1–26  EU ), designed by the sculptors Bernard and René Frémin (1672–1744). The building was crowned by a clock with a mechanical figure of the bell striker ( jacquemart ) and later a carillon ( carillon ).

In 1813 the old pump was torn down. Ernest Cognacq rented his first shop near their previous location in 1869, which he named after the pump. The business name was colloquially abbreviated to "La Samar".

literature

  • Bernard de Bélidor : Architecture Hydraulique, ou L'art de conduire, d'élever et de ménager les eaux pour les différens besoins de la vie . tape 2 . Charles-Antoine Jombert, Paris 1739, p. 170–178 ( digitized on Gallica - for the hydraulic pump).
  • Ferdinand Laudet: La Samaritaine, le génie et la générosité de deux grands commercants. Paris 1933.
  • Meredith L. Clausen: Frantz Jourdain and the Samaritaine. Art Nouveau Theory and Criticism. Brill Academic Publishers , Leiden 1987, 350 pp., Hardcover, Ill., ISBN 90-04-07879-7 .
  • Jean-François Cabestan (ed.), Laurent Le Corrolier, Hubert Lempereur, Étienne Léna: La Samaritaine Magasin 2. Étude d'intérêt patrimonial. Attrapa - Atelier de transformation des patrimoines, Grenoble 2011, 123 pp., PDF file , (French).

Movies

  • Small fish, big fish . (Original title: Riens du tout .) Movie Satire, France, 1992, 93 min, Book:. Cédric Klapisch , Jackie Berroyer, directed by Cédric Klapisch, Summary of prism .
    Klapisch's feature film debut takes place in La Samaritaine and is about the department store manager Lepetit (The Little One) , who is supposed to save an economically troubled department store within a year. To increase work motivation, he uses various methods such as group work , body work , choir singing, bungee jumping , a tent camp for managers and participation in a marathon . In the end, he has to realize that it was only used as a means of increasing the value of a property.
  • An episode of the film Holy Motors (2012) takes place in the empty building, on the roof terrace and in the area of ​​the former department store.

Web links

Commons : La Samaritaine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Luxury department store in Paris - La Samaritaine shines in new splendor , at tagesschau.de, accessed on June 23, 2021
  2. ↑ Grands magasins de La Samaritaine, Paris 1st. In: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication , accessed on January 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ https://www.archyde.com/la-samaritaine-postpones-its-inauguration-to-2021/
  4. ↑ a b Stéphanie Souron: The end of an era: "La Samaritaine" dense. In: dpa / n-tv , June 23, 2005.
  5. ↑ a b wü: The "Samaritaine" closes for six years. In: Die Welt , July 21, 2005.
  6. ^ A b wü: Dispute over the Parisian luxury department store La Samaritaine. In: Die Welt , January 23, 2006.
  7. ^ Anne Hidalgo: "Sarkozy sature le paysage médiatique". In: Le Parisien , July 5, 2009.
  8. ^ Andrew Roberts: LVMH Picks Pritkzer Prize Winners for Samaritaine Hotel Project. In: Bloomberg , April 1, 2010.
  9. ↑ A transition from courtyard to courtyard. ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: projet.samaritaine.com , 2015, (English).
  10. ^ SANAA Announces Plans for Paris' La Samaritaine Restoration. In: archdaily.com , June 7, 2011.
  11. ↑ Picture of the planned house facade in AFP : Samaritaine: le tribunal administratif annule l'un des permis de construire. In: Le Point , May 13, 2014.
  12. ^ Michaela Wiegel: Luxury department store in Paris. Monument protection triumphs over commerce. In: FAZ.net , January 5, 2015.
      Kim Willsher: Work on Parisian former department store La Samaritaine stops again. In: The Guardian , January 6, 2015.
  13. ↑ The key sentence of the second-instance judgment reads: "ne correspond pas à l'obligation d'insertion de la construction projetée dans le tissu urbain environnant" (Translation: The planned construction does not comply with the obligation to insertion into the urban environment .) Quoting Ivan Letessier: Samaritaine: nouveau rejet du permis de construire. In: Le Figaro , January 5, 2015.
  14. ↑ dpa : Dispute about the facade. Samaritaine luxury department store: court lifts construction freeze. In: HNA , June 19, 2015.
      AFP : Le Conseil d'État valid le projet de rénovation de La Samaritaine. In: L'Express , June 14, 2014.
  15. ^ "Samaritaine (la)" In: Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison , Dictionnaire des beaux-arts , Volume 3, Desray, 1806, p. 477.

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 33 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 32"  E