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At the start of 2003, a friend told Klaus Littmann about the closed department store in the village of Mugron in south-western France. An initial visit confirmed the incredible: a department store whose doors had last admitted patrons nearly 30 years ago has been left in its original condition and regularly maintained and cleaned by its owners. Littmann immediately appreciated the extraordinary quality of this time capsule of contemporary history, and honoured the unintentional achievement of the store's two owners by reanimating this frozen slice of the past in the present day and in a different context. "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums" — Andy Warhol 
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