Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse is a 210-meter (689-foot) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest skyscraper in France and the ninth tallest building in the European Union.[citation needed] In the future, it may be surpassed in height by the Tour AXA (225 m), and later by Tour Phare and Tour Generali (both approximately 300 meters).
The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien and built by Campenon Bernard.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés was originally commissioned as a shelter for King Childebert I's relic of the True Cross, broungth back from Spain in AD 542. Despite the outside's very Romanesque architecture, inside the church are many interesting examples of 19th century art. One such piece includes a series of stained glass windows showing scenes from the Old Testament. The church currently does excellent organ concerts on its antique organ.

From Mailbag

Just a few steps from the Jardin du Luxembourg, opposite the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière, a well-known art school, the Hotel des Academies et des Arts remembers the roaring twenties, when Montparnasse was a magnet for artists. Inspired by the hotel’s past and the history of the neighbourhood, Charlotte and Laurent wanted to revive the Hotel des Academies et des Arts’ artistic heritage by bringing together several artists to create an original backdrop for contemporary works of art.

Sophie de Watrigant and Jérôme Mesnager have invested the place with their artistic imagination. Sophie’s sculptures are dotted around the lobby and the “petit bistrot”, going right up the main staircase, where small figures climbing ladders are suspended in the stairwell. Jérôme Mesnager’s jointed figures are painted directly onto wallpaper which serves as his canvas. Take the lift up to the top floor and admire another of Mesnager’s works as you ascend. A white giant also appears on the red-painted wall of the inner courtyard and can be seen from the ground floor right up to the fifth floor at the Hotel des Academies et des Art in Saint Germain des Pres, Paris.

From Hoosta.com

At the turn of the 20th century, it was one of the most famous art schools in Paris.
Former students who have probably stayed at Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris : Tamara de Lempicka, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Miller, Amedeo Modigliani, Isamu Noguchi, Nat Mayer Shapiro.

In the legendary neighborhood of Montparnasse, the most celebrated painters and the most secretive amateurs came to the Grande Chaumiere and the Hotel des Academies et des Arts to sit in the huge and somewhat mysterious rooms in the Academy free to practice their timeless art: life drawing, the nude, sketch ...

How was Montparnasse at the beginning of the 20th century? The heart of art with the Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. The Academie de la France Chaumiere is the only institution which at the beginning of the last century opened the way towards independant art leaving all forms of technics to be expressed freely.

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