With hundreds of art galleries, chic cafés and architectural marvels on every corner, it stands to reason that there’s far more to the City of Light than the usual tourist-filled spots. Alessia Armenise shares her favourites
With hundreds of art galleries, chic cafés and architectural marvels on every corner, it stands to reason that there’s far more to the City of Light than the usual tourist-filled spots. Alessia Armenise shares her favourites
SOMETIME IN 1975, Pierre Buraglio began gathering discarded windows from demolition sites in Paris. Pickings were plentiful. The fourteenth arrondissement, where he had a studio, was undergoing extensive redevelopment, part of a broader wave of modernization exemplified by the recently built skyscraper Tour Montparnasse. The artist had opposed this trend, heatedly decrying the likely consequences for the quarter’s working-class inhabitants.1 He was nonetheless drawn to the cast-off fixtures, which he conveyed to a friend’s carpentry workshop. There he transformed them into wall-mounted artworks