Edible Apple

This past Saturday, Apple opened up its 294th store in Paris, France.

Set in a restored bank across Rue Halevy from the gilded Palais Garnier — longtime home of the Opera de Paris — the store eschews the usual bland Apple retail ambiance in favor of the site’s original architectural detail — the mosaic tile floor, the marble columns, the curving balustrade, the wrought-iron spiral staircases, the long narrow skylight.

The storefront was originally built in 1853 and was subsequently converted into a popular bank back in 1918. Apple worked hard to restore many of the bank’s original elements, calling the finished product a “marriage between the historic building and the latest in technology.

via Fortune