Magasin Aux Dames de France (Perpignan)

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The Magasin aux Dames de France in Perpignan is a historic department store and a monument of Art Nouveau .

Geographical location

The Magasin Aux Dames de France is located on the Place de Catalogne (Plaza Catalunya) in Perpignan, then the eastern entrance to the city, today on the edge of the city center.

The avenue Général de Gaulle (formerly: avenue de la Gare), an axis that defines the cityscape, connects it in a straight line over 700 m directly with the central station of Perpignan .

history

Historic photo (before 1911)

The building was built between 1905 and 1907 as a branch of the department store chain Aux Dames de France . The architect was Georges Debrie , who had previously built department stores in d'Hyères (1895) and Toulouse (1904) for the department store chain .

In 1988 the department store closed.

building

architecture

Georges Debrie built a building in the Art Nouveau style with a glass and iron roof dome as the crowning of the roof, which was destroyed in 1963. The building is four-story and has a pentagonal floor plan. The three main facades have an identical structure: The ground floor has large shop windows that are separated by barely decorated pillars. On the upper floors, however, rich decor unfolds here. There are large arched windows that extend over two floors. The third floor is an attic. The roof is covered with slate and interrupted by a series of oculi . The main entrances are crowned by curved gables adorned with garlands, the main entrance bears the inscription "Aux Dames de France". The restrained decor on the building is committed to historicism and art nouveau.

Architectural significance

The facades and the roof of the building were listed as a historical monument in 1999. The interior is largely modern.

In 2015 the building was placed next to the previously registered Cinéma Le Castillet in Perpignan under the label Patrimoine du XXe siècle .

today

The building is now operated as a gallery that is used by various retail outlets. The main tenant has been the Fnac retail chain since 2001 .

literature

  • Direction régionale des affaires culturelles du Languedoc-Roussillon: Focus Patrimoine du XXe siècle à Perpignan . Perpignan 2015. Without ISBN. [Brochure]
  • Sandrine Garcia: Aux Dames de France: un grand magasin à Perpignan . Université de Perpignan 2007.
  • Marc Tamon: Perpignan: la FNAC aux Dames de France . In: ladepeche.fr of September 13, 2001. Accessed November 26, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ancien magasin Aux Dames de France in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Direction: Focus Patrimoine , p. 6.
  3. ↑ Direction: Focus Patrimoine , pp. 6, 16.

Coordinates: 42 ° 41 ′ 54.7 "  N , 2 ° 53 ′ 18.4"  E