Cité Falguière is a cul-de-sac deep in the Left Bank that was developed between 1868 and 1880. Once home to a community of painters and sculptors, the original two-story workshops were all replaced by much taller apartment blocks in the 1960s. All except for number 11, or Atelier 11—a completely intact fragment of a scene that once included more than 100 artists including Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, Paul Gauguin, Constantin Brancusi, and Tsuguharu Foujita. On November 21, the Île-de-France regional authorities awarded Atelier 11 the status of Patrimoine d’intérêt régional, a designation created in 2017 to recognize notable properties that fall outside of the protection of the Monuments Historiques
→ Continue reading at The Architect's Newspaper
