Paris Under Glass

Glass, iron and the architecture of desire · 1761–1986

A story in five addresses

Five addresses reveal how Paris invented a new kind of public space: covered, commercial, theatrical and filled with light.

The route begins with a family shop that predates the passages, then follows glass-and-iron arcades through two centuries of craft, collecting, spectacle and reinvention.

A world in miniature — read slowly, like a city beneath glass.