Love the Starbucks
Paris mug, drinking a large home made
Caffe Latte :)
The coffee shop in
Champs-Elysées, Paris isn't really in it's
own building, but rather in the
middle of the mini-mall with
glass panes partitioning off the coffee shop from
the rest of
the mall; it gives you a bit of a feeling like you're in
a fishbow.
It was nice sitting there...
The French architects, Charles Lefebvre, Marcel Julien
and Louis Duhayon designed the 120 metres long, 15
metres wide, Arcades des Champs Elysées in
a mixture of
Art Deco and neo-classical styles. Eight of the Scottish
granite
columns came from the old Hôtel Dufayel, to which
were added eight more in red
granite originally surmounted
by gold capitals. A facing of blonde and black
marble
covers the walls.
The decoration inside the arcades was created by some of
the top
craftsmen in their field – the wrought iron work by
René Gobert the stained
glass by Fernand Jacoppozi and
the light fittings and shades by Ren´Lalique.
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