Antique Grands Magasins du Louvre Art Deco Enameled Emerald Glass Vase. Antique glass vase purchased from the Grands Margasins du Louvre department store of Paris, France, with art deco gilt ornamentation and hand-painted floral motif on emerald green glass.

Size: 4 x 4 x 9 1/2 in. 

Grands Magasins du Louvre was one of Paris’s great 19th-century department stores, established in 1855 near the Louvre Palace and celebrated for its luxury goods and elegant architecture. Housed in a grand Second Empire–style building, it catered to the rising bourgeois class with a wide array of merchandise, from fashion and textiles to furniture and decorative arts, all displayed in a modern retail environment that encouraged leisurely browsing. Like its contemporaries Le Bon Marché and Printemps, it revolutionized shopping by offering fixed prices, large inventories, and elaborate window displays, turning commerce into a social and cultural experience. The store became a symbol of Parisian refinement and modern consumer culture before closing in the 1970s, leaving behind a legacy tied to the golden age of French department stores.

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