Shop and house decoration
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Paris 17,
Paris architecture,
Shop decoration
Today, I would first like to present a small collection of old types of shop outdoor decoration, as it used to look like some 100 – 150 years ago. You can fortunately still find a number of shops which have kept their original decoration and they start now to be officially protected. It means of course that some of today’s fashion shops may have some butcher or bakery ensigns – there are fewer butchers and bakeries and more fashion shops today than 100 years ago.
The examples you see here are just from the streets “around the corner”. If I find the time, I could easily increase the “collection”.
As a “proof”, I found this old picture of “my” pharmacy as it looked in the beginning of the 20th century, to be compared with my photo. 
During the same walk I took also a few pictures of some statue like decorations on the front of buildings, probably from the middle of the 19th century. There was more attention paid to the decorative part then than on today’s buildings. 
Related to decoration: Would you like to redecorate your bathroom? These pictures are from a specialised shop, also “around the corner” (pictures taken through the windows). 
The examples you see here are just from the streets “around the corner”. If I find the time, I could easily increase the “collection”.
As a “proof”, I found this old picture of “my” pharmacy as it looked in the beginning of the 20th century, to be compared with my photo. During the same walk I took also a few pictures of some statue like decorations on the front of buildings, probably from the middle of the 19th century. There was more attention paid to the decorative part then than on today’s buildings. Related to decoration: Would you like to redecorate your bathroom? These pictures are from a specialised shop, also “around the corner” (pictures taken through the windows). 
