The Arcades Project - Operi

eaders will be be disturbed by this), it passes from lips to ear, passes almost imper­
ceptibly from pen to paper, and finally from writing desk to nearby letterbox. The
good dame du bureau has a friendly smile for all, and papers and envelopes for
correspondents. The early mail mail is dispatched, Cologne and Augsburg have their
news; and now-it is noontime!-to the tavern." Rodenberg, Paris bei Sonnenschein
und Lampenlicht (Leipzig, 1867), pp. 6-7. (A2a,8] (A2a,8]
""The Passage du Caire is highly reminiscent, on a smaller scale, of the Passage du
Saumon, Saumon, which in the past existed on the Rue Montmartre, on the site of the
present-day Rue Bachaumont." Paul Leautaud, "Vieux Paris," Mercure de
France (October 15, 15,1927), 1927), p. p. 503. (A3,l] (A3,l]
""Shops on the old model, devoted to trades found nowhere else, surmounted by a
small, old-fashioned mezzanine with windows that each bear a number, on an
escutcheon, corresponding to a particular shop. From time to time, a doorway
giving onto a corridor; at the end of the corridor, a small small stairway leading to these
mezzanines. Near the knob of one of these doors, this handwritten sign:
The worker next door
would be obliged if,
in closing the door,
you refrained from slanllning it.
[A3,2]
Another sign is cited in the same same place place (Leautaud, '''Vieux Paris," Mercure de
France [1927], pp. 502-503):
France [1927], pp. 502-503):
ANGELA
2nd floor, to the right
[A3,3]
Old name for department stores: docks it bon marche-that is, ""discount docks."
Old name for department stores: docks it bon marche-that is, ""discount docks ."
Giedion, Bauen in Frankreich , p. 31.
(A3,4] (A3,4]
Evolution of the department store from the shop that was housed in arcades.
Principle of the department store: "The floors form a single space. They can be
taken in, so to speak, 'at a glance:" Giedion, Bauen in Frankreich, p. 34. (A3,5]
taken in, so to speak, 'at a glance:" Giedion, Bauen in Frankreich, p. 34. (A3,5]
Giedion shows (in Bauen in Frankreich, p. 35) how the axiom, "Welcome the
crowd crowd and keep it seduced" (Science et {'industrie, 143 [1925], p. p. 6), leads to
corrupt architectural practices in the construction of the department store Au
Printemps (1881-1889). Function of commodity capital! (A3,6]
Printemps (1881-1889). Function of commodity capital! (A3,6]