“We like emptiness, so there isn’t a lot of decoration,” Sauzay says. (This, after all, was where the first electric streetlights were installed.) There are also no carpets in the apartment, the better to reveal shadows drifting across the bare floors. “I don’t love rugs,” de Tonnac says. “Let’s just say I prefer the wood.”Photo assistant: Camille Padilla

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Persons: “, ” Sauzay, Auguste Perret, Sauzay, Paolo Buffa, Jules, “ It’s, ”, de Tonnac, “ Let’s, Camille Padilla Locations: France