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An unusual configuration

A high-contrast black and white wide-angle photograph of the completely empty interior of The New Penelope, showing rows of benches and bright lighting fixtures hanging from scaffolding overhead.

Date: 1967
Credit: François Dallegret (photographer), copyright 1967
Courtesy of François Dallegret

This wide angle shot of the interior of the new New Penelope on Sherbrooke Street was captured by François Dallegret with a special camera lens. It gives a view of the interior of the brand-new New Penelope on Sherbrooke Street at the time of its opening. We see the elongated and narrow shape of the space, which certainly must have posed some design challenges.