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display windows and furnishings sourced by Loos in
England. Three mezzanine levels served by short flights of stairs housed reception and changing rooms above the main sales floor, as well as offices and the accounting department in the centre, and extending on two levels over rented commercial space on the two side streets, store rooms and work rooms for all the stages in the production of clothing. Customer areas were unified by mahogany-clad pillars, consistent marble flooring, and brass; the screened-off production areas were finished in exposed concrete. Two sets of stairs and two elevator shafts served the upper floors, including apprentice instruction and a private vocational school which shared the top floor.
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