Passage Verdeau Paris
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Passage Verdeau Paris
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Passage Verdeau, Paris, France.
Vertical panoramic view of one of the surviving passages in Paris.
The Passage Verdeau, in the Grands Boulevards district, was built in 1847, it is one of the most charming covered arcades in the capital and the continuation of two other well known arcades: Les Panoramas and Jouffroy. The second entrance to the covered arcade is at 31 bis rue du Faubourg Montmartre.
The covered passages were an early form of shopping arcade built in Paris, France during the first half of the 19th century. By the 1850s there were approximately 150 covered passages in Paris but many were lost during Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Only a score or so of passages remain, all on the Right Bank .
These covered passages always connected two streets, were all paved, covered with glass-ceilings, artificially illuminated at night (initially with gas lamps) and were privately owned. As they were devised for the high and upper-middle class to spend their time and money when the weather was foul and the streets were muddy, the passages held cafes, shops and restaurants, all highly ornamented and decorated.
Nowadays, a hidden treasure in Paris, antiques dealers and unique shops (old books, postcards, collectors' cameras, etc.) have set up in those passages, in perfect communion with the romantic decoration and lighting of these tiny holes in time.
As for Paris... what can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said...?
More views of Paris one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/paris
Weston Westmoreland.
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September 15th, 2020
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