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Hôtel
Martel

When Robert Mallet-Stevens insisted his architectural archive be destroyed on his death, much of his reputation vanished with it.
Daphnée Denis pays a visit to the eponymous Parisian cul-de-sac where his legacy lives on. Photography by Romain Laprade.

Nestled in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in an area known as the Village d’Auteuil near the city’s western edge, rue Mallet-Stevens feels resolutely un-Parisian. Far from the French capital’s traditional Haussmannian style, the modernist cul-de-sac, named after its architect, Robert Mallet-Stevens, once had critic Jean Gallotti ponder whether he may have been visiting another country. “The other day, in this lovely area of Auteuil, I thought I was transported to Morocco, in the new capital, where the chalk cubes

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Nine

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