The Galleries Lafayette dome is just something you don't expect to see in a department store. I think only the French have the audacity to pull off this type of architecture in a store open to the masses. In it's own way, Galleries Lafayette is a church to the religion of shopping. Crowds of people flow in and out like the ebb and flow of the tide. It's like the building breathes in people, gains sustenance from the cash in their wallets and then coughs them out again, clutching branded plastic bags of merchandise. Most people in the store are tourists, of course, but don't let that stop you from exploring is floors and marveling at the decor. Unless they've rearranged the floor, you can't get dead center under the dome but you can get pretty close.
The Galleries Lafayette dome ceiling in Paris, France.
