Grandella Building

Francisco de Almeida Grandella, a comerciant who acquired new knowledgement in Paris about how to make best direct sells, bought in 1903 an house in Rua do Carmo that links to other in Rua do Ouro.
The French Georges Demaye, an expert in iron architecture and new arts, project the building, inspired in the French warehouse Samaritaine, which is inaugurated in 1907.
This building and the Chiado Warehouse were destructed by fire in 1988.
Years Later, the Grandella was restored and re-opened in 1996 as Printemps. Its façade in Rua do Carmo preserves the famous monumental watch relieving the truth and the commerce and the big stone medallions with the lemma: “Always in a good way and go on!”

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