Jazz Age Paris

The Panthéon in Paris is identifiable by its massive neoclassical dome and a front portico modeled after the ancient Pantheon in Rome. Completed in seventeen ninety, the building occupies the site of a former abbey on the Montagne…

Bobino, located at number twenty rue de la Gaîté, is a music hall theater in the Montparnasse district of Paris. You can identify the venue by its modern facade on this street, which has been a hub for public entertainment since the early…

Le Bal Blomet is a jazz club and cabaret recognizable by its intimate, cellar-like interior, marked by exposed brick and a history that stretches back to nineteen twenty-four. It began in an eighteen-hundreds farmhouse that Jean Rézard de…

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is defined by its facade of white marble and reinforced concrete, decorated with five distinctive bas-relief sculptures by Antoine Bourdelle. Completed in nineteen thirteen, the building was the first major…

The Salle Pleyel features a distinct Art Deco façade of concrete partially covered in stone, standing at two hundred fifty-two Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. This concert hall takes its name from the Pleyel piano company, founded in…

Rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle runs five hundred eighty-three meters toward the northern edge of the ninth arrondissement. It takes its name from the eighteenth-century sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, who lived at number one and kept a workshop…

The Folies Bergère at thirty-two Rue Richer is marked by a prominent Art Deco façade that stands out along the street. Opened in May eighteen sixty-nine, the venue began as a hybrid space for operettas, songs, and gymnastics. It originally…