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| Location | Paris, France |
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| Opening date | 1893 |
| No. of floors | HOME STORE 5
MEN'S STORE 4 MAIN STORE 10 |
| Website | Galeries Lafayette department stores website |
The Galeries Lafayette (French pronunciation: [ɡalʁi lafajɛt]) is a French department store company.
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In 1893 Théophile Bader and his cousin Alphonse Kahn opened a fashion store in a small haberdasher's shop at the corner of rue La Fayette and the Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. In 1896, the company purchased the entire building at n°1 rue La Fayette and in 1905 the buildings at n°38, 40 et 42, boulevard Haussmann and n°15 rue de la Chaussée d'Antin.
Théophile Bader commissioned Georges Chedanne and then his pupil Ferdinand Chanut to design the layout of the Haussmann location. A glass and steel dome, and Art Nouveau staircases were built in 1912.
The flagship store of Galeries Lafayette in Paris is a 10-story department store. It is located at 40, boulevard Haussmann, in the IXe arrondissement.
Stations on Paris metro: Chausee d'Antin La Fayette, Havre-Caumartin, Opéra, Madeleine, Saint-Lazare, and RER - Auber. Further details available at: Transports en Île-de-France.
The Berlin, Germany, store was designed by Jean Nouvel and constructed between 1991 and 1995. It opened in 1996.
A Lafayette location opened in Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, but it was unsuccessful and went out of business.
A Galeries Lafayette store is opened in Dubai Mall as of May 18 2009 but finishing works are still ongoing.
As of 2006:
 The Galeries Lafayette on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, Christmas 2004. |
 Detail of the dome and balconies from the ground floor |
The Group owns the following subsidiaries:
Coordinates: 48°52′24.45″N 2°19′55.67″E / 48.8734583°N 2.3321306°E
   | Berlin store website - Galeries Lafayette Berlin: Galeries Lafayette Berlin |
| | Galeries Lafayette Group website - Bienvenue sur le site du Groupe Galeries Lafayette |
| | Galeries Lafayette department stores website - Galeries Lafayette - Le grand magasin en ligne - Le web vit plus mode |
| | Pictures of the Berlin store - Curiosités de Berlin - Les Galeries Lafayette - Berlin en ligne |
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