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Photobooth #15

Mutoscope

photobooth with a metal covering and a blue curtain and illuminated sign

GALERIES LAFAYETTE CHAMPS-ELYSEES
60 Av. des Champs-Élysées
Paris 8e
> M° Franklin D. Roosevelt

For a long time now , we have been talking about rebuild one of those super rare model of booth, never seen anywhere, with, for only trace, a prototypical photo.


According to the legend, this model would be the last produced by Mutoscope compagny in the early 50s…


All that’s left is a black and white archive picture, floating forever in the meanders of Internet.


Thus, this is an interpretation of this mysterious model produced by the “International Mutoscope Compagny” in the Fotoautomat style.


For enthusiasts, this open booth is equipped with a suspended and perfectly non adjustable stool, an absolutely stainless steel slender structure, surmounted by a backlit diamond roof. Find this photobooth on the first floor of the Galeries Lafayette on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, near stairs.

Distinguishing features :

  • Stainless steel framework.
  • Flashes ” With The New Electronic Speed Light”.
  • Aluminium ribbed baseboards in the Jean Prouvé style.
    Absolutely non adjustable suspended seat.
  • Accepts 1€, 2€ coins / contactless bank card.

A red-haired woman sitting in a photobooth with blue curtains
wood and steel photobooth stool
photobooth display featuring a portrait photo of a woman
vintage metal photobooth
detail of photobooth metal assembly
illuminated signboard in a modernist design
vintage photobooth installed at Galeries Lafayette Champs Elysees Paris
aluminium and wood photobooth with blue floor and curtains and a solid oak seat
détail of a photobooth baseboards
vintage photobooth
data plate
blue felt curtain