Nothing perhaps more than the covered passages, from the wooden galleries of the Palais-Royal to the veritable national monuments of Milan, Moscow and Berlin, tells the ambiguous relationship between merchandise and dreams. Their old-fashioned charm, now appreciated by antique dealers and fashion designers, tells of the first steps of the consumer society, in a not-so-distant era when strollers did not push shopping carts.
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Brief history of covered passages or the secret world of merchandise
