After 6 years, I finally waited for Jay Chou to send the news of the new album. On July 6, the MV of the "Greatest Work" pioneer song premiered, and Zhou Dong once again surprised the friends.
The friends who grew up with Zhou Dong know that Jaylen is very careful about the production of MVs, and he is carefully crafted for each MV, looking for his favorite shooting locations around the world, so where does this year's "The Greatest Work" come from? Today Xiaobian will take the small partners to understand it.
Jay Chou's MV was filmed at the Salis amaridine department store in Paris. Well, did you hear that right? Department store? Yes, you heard it right, this is no ordinary department store, Samaritan is not only one of the first department stores in Paris, it is also an iconic Parisian historical and cultural building. He is 152 years old.
On June 21, 2021, The Paris Department Store Des Marisamarind finally opened its doors after 16 years of closure. The international luxury giant LVMH Spent 750 million euros and took five years to complete the renovation. On the day of the opening ceremony, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife attended.
What we now see as the façade of the building dates back to 1928, and it embodies the art of decoration style, which is very much in line with the fashion trends of the time. The glass is colored, and the owner wants to use this design to attract customers as much as possible. The design was strongly opposed by the city government and the Historic Building Preservation Society. The second floor side reflects the Art Nouveau decoration style.
We entered the shop, a staircase with a soul, 270 steps made of oak, using the same material as the wooden roof of Notre Dame cathedral, and the roof made of glass to maximize the introduction of light, because there was no electricity at the beginning of the 20th century. Unfortunately, today we cannot see the glass floor used in the original store, which cannot be used because it does not meet safety standards.
The golden leaves on the staircase are made of real gold, costing 16,000 sheets of gold paper, which are hand-pasted by craftsmen. The staircase is a proud craft of the French, which is not welded but spliced.
Why should the entire staircase railing be blue-gray? In fact, during the renovation, the engineering team was not sure which color to use, because every ten years the store had to recolor the stairs, and the color changed during this period. Using an old photograph from 1910, the engineering team judged that blue-gray was the original color when the store opened in 1870.
Many of the decorations were previously obscured, such as the very palatial frescoes we saw on the top floor. These murals are a good representation of the stylistic connections between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, with paintings containing both references to traditional pictorial art and expressions of lines and deformations. The railings under the frescoes look like iron branches. But there are also plaster casts, almost to the point of being fake. The railing under the mural is completed in the manufacturer and installed directly in the mall. Looking at this iron skeleton structure, have you ever thought of the famous Eiffel Tower? Yes, there is the spirit of the Eiffel Tower construction, and the purpose of this construction is also to speed up the progress of the project.
Merchants call this layer under the glass roof the Winter Garden, in order to hope that customers will travel in the mall for a long time in order to stimulate his desire to consume.