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A very unusual and wonderful find! This piece is a hand painted fabric from Galeries Lafayette ( history below) dating from the 1920's ~ it is called " woman's work " department! It was 9 Francs , 9o . The ground cloth is a linen and cotton mix ( linen warp) ~ this piece still has the original tag perfectly intact!~ I have a matching piece if you search my store for the word Galeries it will appear! Perfectly preserved , a piece of Parisian history! ~

MEASUREMENTS: This piece measures approximately 19 inches by 19 inches

CONDITION: This textile is in as found, not freshly laundered condition Gorgeous unused condition !!!

Inventory EFF 105

Galeries Lafayette History : In 1894, 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, in Paris.[5] In 1896, their company purchased the entire building at 1 rue La Fayette; in 1905 they acquired the buildings at 38, 40 and 42 boulevard Haussmann and 15 rue de la Chaussée d'Antin.[6] Bader commissioned the architect Georges Chedanne and his pupil Ferdinand Chanut to design the store at the Haussmann location, where a glass and steel dome and Art Nouveau staircases were finished in 1912.

From 1921 Maurice Dufrêne directed the Maîtrise workshop of the Galeries Lafayette. This workshop for decorative art and furniture followed the Primavera of the Printemps store founded in 1912 by René Guilleré, Paul Follot's Pomone of Le Bon Marché, and the Studium of the Grands Magasins du Louvre.[7]