
03/27/2025
Designer has overhauled two floors of retail space in New York City's historic One Wall Street skyscraper for the US flagship of French department store .
is located across two lower levels of the original 1931 limestone One Wall Street tower designed by architect Ralph Walker and is accessed through the Red Room on Wall Street, the former Bank of New York lobby intricately tiled in red and gold mosaics by Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière.
Printemps encompasses 55,000 square feet (5,109 square metres) of retail space, including multiple bars, a cafe and a fine dining restaurant and wine shop slated to open later this year as part of "redefining traditional concepts of retail" according to its CEO Jean-Marc Bellaiche.
For its design, French designer Gonzalez was informed by "the essence" of a Parisian apartment, where the store originated on Boulevard Haussmann 160 years ago, as well as its original art-nouveau elements.