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Printemps
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Printemps (meaning "spring" in French) is a French department store (or a grand magasin, literally "big store").
The flagship Printemps store is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the IXe arrondissement of Paris along with other famous department stores like Galeries Lafayette.
There are also other Printemps stores in Paris and throughout France. The store has also opened branches outside France, in locations including Andorra, the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo and Jeddah. The store in Seoul which opened in 1988 is closed.
The only North American branch was a franchised location in Denver, Colorado, at the Broadway Plaza Shopping Center, which opened in 1987. It is now closed.
Printemps used to be owned by the PPR group, the parent company of Gucci and FNAC.
Printemps was founded in Paris in 1865 by Jules Jaluzot, in a building designed by Paul Sédille, though repeatedly added to. A remarkable feature of the Haussmann store is an elaborate Art Nouveau stained-glass cupola above the main restaurant in the store, installed in 1923. In 1939, to avoid the risk that it would be destroyed in bombing attacks, the cupola was dismantled and stored at Clichy. It was restored in 1973 by the grandson of its original designer, using plans that had been kept in the archives of the family business. In 1975, the façade and cupola of the building were registered as historical monuments.
- (English) Official site focusing on the flagship Paris store.
- (French) Groupe Printemps includes information on other stores.
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