Two photos of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, the premier department store in the city. It is a beautiful building, almost a palace of consumption, with an abstract glass dome and several art nouveau floors created to look like an opera house. In contrast to the non attachment to objects as suggested above, we spend most of our time acquiring them. The function of such upmarket stores being to create and sustain our need for objects of desire: fashion, perfumes, Scarlett Johansson, and so on.
