Meditations on an Unchanged Window Display

This is a window front in Avize that has remained untouched in the four years since I've known the village -- and god only knows how long before that. I have no idea if this used to be a shop or someone's house (perhaps it still is; home improvement isn't exactly a booming business in Avize). Strangely, it doesn't look any more or less dusty than when I first saw it, which means that either someone is working carefully to keep the decay at status quo, or that dust can't penetrate such a sublime work of art.

Now you may think I'm being post-modernly condescending or ironic when i call it a work of art -- but I mean what I say. I truly LOVE this window and I hope it never changes, no matter how many chateaux and vineyards and farms in the surrounding areas are bought up by greedy Americans and Brits (myself included of course...).