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Aldi (stylised as ALDI [6]) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. [7] [8] The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when they took over their mother's store in Essen. The business was split into two separate ...
Le Bon Marché (lit. "the good market", or "the good deal" in French; French pronunciation: [lə bɔ̃ maʁʃe]) is a department store in Paris, France. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. It was a member of the International Association of Department ...
Website. Official website. The Art & History Museum ( French: Musée Art & Histoire; Dutch: Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis) is a public museum of antiquities and ethnographic and decorative arts located at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is one of the constituent parts of the Royal Museums of Art and History ...
c. 1760 –1830. Location. France. Neoclassicism is a movement in architecture, design and the arts which emerged in France in the 1740s and became dominant in France between about 1760 to 1830. It emerged as a reaction to the frivolity and excessive ornament of the baroque and rococo styles. In architecture it featured sobriety, straight lines ...
Defunct. 2003. ( 2003) Area served. France, Andorra, French possessions and colonies and Greece. Prisunic (Société Française des Magasins à Prix Uniques) was a French variety store chain that closed in 2003. Its stores were generally located in downtown areas. Over their existence they also operated stores in Andorra, Greece and the French ...
The INHA headquarters reception area is located in the Colbert Gallery. The Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art ( French: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, National Institute for Art History), commonly abbreviated INHA, is a French research institute, created and governed by Decree No. 2001-621 (July 12, 2001), [1] and situated in Paris.
Louis Philippe style. The style of architecture and design under King Louis Philippe I (1830–1848) was a more eclectic development of French neoclassicism, incorporating elements of neo-Gothic and other styles. It was the first French decorative style imposed not by royalty, but by the tastes of the growing French upper class.
The culture of Paris concerns the arts, music, museums, festivals and other entertainment in Paris, the capital city of France. The city is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centers; entertainment, music, media, fashion, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.