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Paris — Forum des Halles, 2017

An afternoon at the Forum des Halles in central Paris — opening on the Lego Store's Star Wars wall, then out through the mall under the curved steel-and-glass Canopée, and down into the underground at Châtelet–Les Halles below. The mall on top, the city's biggest interchange underneath.

A European toy store display case holds an assembled LEGO Resistance Transport Pod alongside a Finn minifigure and BB-8, posed against a snowy Crait-style backdrop. The set is priced at €39.99 and framed by circular highlight rings that direct the eye — retail theatre doing exactly what it's meant to do, and doing it well. Below the case, LEGO Star Wars set 75189, the First Order Heavy Assault Walker, covers the shelf front in full packaging art.
A retail shelf in a European toy store, stacked with LEGO Star Wars sets from The Last Jedi wave. The First Order Heavy Scout Walker (75177) dominates both rows at €59.99, with multiple units lined up behind the hero box. To the right, the First Order Star Destroyer (75190) at €159.99 and the Resistance Bomber (75188) share the adjacent column. Warm yellow store signage frames the top of the frame; LEGO Batman and DC sets fill the left edge. The shelf is a snapshot of the 2017 holiday assortment, product packaging doing the heavy lifting.
A toy store shelf stocked with LEGO Star Wars sets from The Last Jedi era — the First Order Star Destroyer (75190) taking centre stage above the Resistance Bomber (75188), with the First Order Heavy Assault Walker (75177) stacked in multiples to the left. The packaging artwork does the heavy lifting: starships mid-battle, minifigures lined up below, price tags in euros marking this as a European retail floor. LEGO Star Wars product displays carry a particular visual weight — the boxes are designed to sell the fantasy, and here they're doing exactly that, shelf by shelf.
LEGO Star Wars set 75098 — Assault on Hoth — photographed on a retail shelf at €249.99. The box art does its job well: Echo Base cut open to show the interior, a Snowspeeder mid-flight, an AT-AT looming in the background, and a full cast of Rebel and Imperial minifigures laid out across a convincing Hoth snowscape. A large-scale collector set aimed at 12+, and the packaging sells that scale without underselling it.
LEGO Star Wars TIE Fighter 75095 — the Ultimate Collector Series edition — sitting on a toy store shelf priced at €219.99. The box art does the heavy lifting: a dramatic render of the angular Imperial fighter firing green laser blasts, wings spread wide against a deep-space backdrop. It's a display piece as much as a build, and the packaging knows it. Adjacent sets visible on the shelf include the Y-Wing Starfighter at €76.99 and the A-Wing Starfighter, giving some sense of the scale difference the UCS tier commands.
LEGO Star Wars set 75060 — the UCS Slave I — takes centre shelf in a toy store display, flanked by Y-Wings, A-Wings, and smaller battle pack sets on the shelves below. The large-format box artwork puts Boba Fett's ship against a fiery sky, doing the heavy lifting that product packaging does best. One statement set surrounded by a full range: the UCS commands attention precisely because the rest of the shelf gives it scale.
A LEGO Star Wars retail display in a European toy store, built around the Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon — at the time the largest LEGO set ever made. The centrepiece model sits in a backlit showcase, surrounded by shelves stacked floor-to-ceiling with Star Wars sets: buildable figures, battle packs, and UCS sets including the Death Star. The French-bilingual "Nouveau / New" badge on the display panel places this squarely at the 2017 European launch.
A LEGO store in Paris, seen through its full-height glass facade. In the window display, a detailed LEGO Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral sits at the centre — built brick by brick, lit from below, stopped mid-browse by a steady stream of shoppers. The store sells miniature versions of the city surrounding it; that's not irony, it's just Paris being Paris.
La Canopée at Forum des Halles fills the frame from edge to edge — a steel-and-glass lattice designed by Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti that curves overhead like a wave frozen mid-break. The grid is pure architectural geometry: repeating panes catching diffuse daylight and bending it across a concrete retail floor below. Below the canopy's rim, Monoprix signage and autumn trees anchor the scene in a recognisably Parisian neighbourhood. The structure earns its ambition by making something genuinely abstract out of the ordinary business of covered shopping.
Forum des Halles seen from the inside out. The floor-to-ceiling glass wall frames the Canopée's steel lattice roof against a clear Paris sky, with the old church tower of Saint-Eustache just visible beyond the escalators. People at low tables in the foreground sit in cool interior shadow while the world outside moves at its own pace — the architecture holds both in the same frame without choosing between them.
A bronze relief by Pierre-Yves Trémois, cast by Susse Fondeur in Paris, mounted against a dark steel ground. A gilded arm reaches upward from a fractured root system; a fragmented skull floats above it; two faces press together at the lower left; an embracing couple rests in an oval niche to the right. The motifs — skull, birth, embrace — pull in opposite directions, yet the panel holds them on one surface. Gold patina against near-black steel does the compositional work that colour would only complicate.
A cylindrical drum shade hangs from a ribbed concrete ceiling in a Paris interior, its perforated metal skin punched through with a constellation of dots — varying in size from pinprick to coin. The inner shell glows pale green-white, the light forcing the dot pattern to read as both industrial surface and star map. Industrial design doing two things at once: containment and spectacle.