In pictures, the most expensive house in Paris (still for sale)

This house is the most expensive in Paris per square meter

If Parisian prices are already around 10,000 euros per square meter, and the 6th arrondissement – ​​the most expensive of all – almost 14,000 euros per square meter, this sale breaks all records, reaching 32,895 euros per square meter. Offered at 12.5 million euros by the luxury real estate agency Varenne, this house is the former studio of the modern artist Jean Dubuffet, whose AD offered the visit a few months ago. Spread over 280 square meters and three levels, it embodies the ultimate dream of every Parisian: an immense, quiet space, with a small garden and a terrace on its roof. All in the beating heart of the capital, the bourgeois and artistic district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Discover in pictures this breathtaking property, still for sale.

“At the end of the Maintenon alley [entre la tour Montparnasse et le musée Bourdelle]a discreet dead end in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, a house-workshop stands as a silent witness to a bygone era, marked by art and innovation.begins the real estate ad. The property is promising. Designed by Gustave and Auguste Perret, the latter of whom notably designed the Champs Elysées theater, the Palais d'Iéna and the Mobilier national building, the house was commissioned by the Polish painter Mela Muter in 1926, before house the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet, specialist in art brut, between 1945 and 1985. It belongs, today, to a man French businessman, who is looking to get rid of it to acquire a wine estate.

“Sir, I have been tenant of the pavilion that you built for Mrs. Méla Mutter for more than two years. [sic], wrote Jean Dubuffet to Auguste Perret, in 1946, in a letter now preserved in the City of Architecture and Heritage. In use, I mean living in this house (very constantly, because I hardly go out), I experience a pleasure, given by the proportions and architectural arrangements of these premises, which does not fade (which increases on the contrary) and my thoughts very often go to the architect who designed it, with a keen feeling of admiration and recognition which I want to share with you. […] » The artist meets his peers there, from Denise Colomb to Robert Doisneau, including Man Ray and Raymond Queneau. The house thus remains today, in addition to an architectural masterpiece, a witness to the Parisian cultural history of the mid-20th century.