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“Perhaps this is the ultimate commodity on sale at the Megastore: the fantasy that class divisions are suspended.” Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes (2002)
Built in 1886, the Café des Glaces—named for its numerous mirrors—is among the architectural masterpieces of the town of Tonnerre, in Burgundy. Adorned with moldings, high ceilings, and large windows in Belle Époque style, it successively served as a salon, ballroom, and hotel, remaining active until 2000. Fueled by the rise of consumer culture, the café as a social institution established itself as a space of sociability marked by relative social mixing, where a variety of drinks were consumed—notably that colonial commodity, once luxury and now widely democratized: coffee.
Today, the Café des Glaces stands as an faded symbol of the provincial middle class, a symbol of the decline of rural France. Thus, if “taste classifies and classifies the classifier,” it establishes a process of symbolic...More
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“Perhaps this is the ultimate commodity on sale at the Megastore: the fantasy that class divisions are suspended.” Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes (2002)
Built in 1886, the Café des Glaces—named for its numerous mirrors—is among the architectural masterpieces of the town of Tonnerre, in Burgundy. Adorned with moldings, high ceilings, and large windows in Belle Époque style, it successively served as a salon, ballroom, and hotel, remaining active until 2000. Fueled by the rise of consumer culture, the café as a social institution established itself as a space of sociability marked by relative social mixing, where a variety of drinks were consumed—notably that colonial commodity, once luxury and now widely democratized: coffee.
Today, the Café des Glaces stands as an faded symbol of the provincial middle class, a symbol of the decline of rural France. Thus, if “taste classifies and classifies the classifier,” it establishes a process of symbolic...More
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