Future Days, the Amsterdam store with a ‘madcap offering’

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One shopfront on Amsterdam’s lively Haarlemmerdijk high street stands out from the rest. The art nouveau façade, from 1896, is tiled with depictions of fish, sea lions and tangled tentacles. Painted lettering declares it a “Visch & Fruithandel”, or fish and fruit merchant. “It’s an unusual combination,” says Eloïse Ptito-Echeverría of the former grocers…