Disney Store on the Champs-Élysées, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

A Disney Store occupies the ground floor of a classic Haussmann building on the Champs-Élysées, its bold brand signage sitting inside limestone pilasters and wrought-iron balconies that predate it by over a century. Autumn light cuts across the façade at a low angle, throwing tree shadows over the stone. Commerce adapts to the building; the building barely notices. Pedestrians move along the wide pavement in the foreground, the street doing exactly what it was designed to do.