HOUSE AS HOSTESS

What role does a building play in the art of hosting?

Natalie Clifford Barney, a salonnière in Paris in the early 1900s, held her Friday salon at 20 Rue Jacob.
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The space and it’s guests are immortalized in a spatialized sketch by André Rouveyre, an “If these walls could talk” moment.
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Given our fascination with anthropomorphizing buildings, our Salonnière Paper 01 dives deeper in to Ms. Barney’s story her The Temple of Friendship.