Our staircase, Pigalle, 9th Arr., Paris. June 2015
It’s like climbing a staircase. I’m on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That’s where I was.
Jeanne Moreau
Pattern and colour always attract me.
We lived for a month in the 9th Arrondissment of Paris, near the famed Moulin Rouge and Montmartre, where Van Gogh, among others, lived. Our apartment was an old one, and had not been fitted with a lift. We climbed these stairs every day, sometimes three or four times, to get to our floor, the sixth.
As far as we can tell, these were the original treads, the original cast iron balusters, and the original oak handrails. Over a hundred years old.