27 rue de Fleurus

You are standing before the former home of American writer Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas. From nineteen oh three to nineteen thirty-eight, this apartment functioned as a private laboratory for the avant-garde. The white-washed walls of their high-ceilinged atelier were covered from floor to ceiling with paintings by artists like Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, long before those names became the centerpieces of modern museum collections. Continue