Printemps, the famed French department store (though it’s tagline is NOT a department store) will open at One Wall, alongside and above Whole Foods on Broadway, on March 21.
Founded in 1865 by Jules Jaluzot, Printemps is now a group with 20 department stores in France as well as its in the landmark flagship store at Boulevard Haussmannis. The group also has nine Citadium stores and acquired two e-commerce companies: Place des Tendances and Made in Design.
The store will cover 55,000 square feet on two floors designed to look like a Parisian apartment by the French architect Laura Gonzalez, who recently opened a showroom on Franklin. There will be an all-day cafe, Café Jalu, named after the founder, and a fine dining restaurant, Maison Passerelle, helmed by two-time Top Chef finalist and three-time James Beard award winner Gregory Gourdet.
The store’s departments all have names corresponding to rooms in a house — the Playroom, the Sneaker Room, the Salle de Bain — and there are bound to be some dramatic interior design moments, like in the Boudoir, with gold-colored metal cladding and cracked lacquer screens from the Parisian Atelier Maury. There will be pink marble staircases, stained glass windows, frescoes, and of course the landmarked Red Room — an entire room of red and gold mosaic tile left over from the Irving Trust days of One Wall. (More on that later.)
This is very exciting!! I’m hoping it fills the hole left by the Barney’s closure..
Nothing can fill that hole :(
But yes, I’m looking forward to this too.
I got a peek into the Red Room today (from the Broadway windows), and the shoes are already in place, waiting for us. It’s sometimes also possible to get a peek in from the Wall Street side if there’s workers going in or out.