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Rue Mallet-Stevens is a small housing development built from 1926 onwards to the design of Robert Mallet-Stevens for whom the street is named. There are five buildings in total, including one where the architect himself lived (number 12).
Number 10 was the home and studio of sculptors Joel and Jean Martel. Pianist, Mme. Reifenberg lived at number 8, Daniel Dreyfus at number 7 and Mme Allatini at numbers 3/5. At the end of the street, number 1 is the caretaker's cottage.
"Secret Paris" explains that "the design of each of the buildings depends on the juxtaposition of smooth sided white cubes in terraces, recesses and towers and jutting roofs". Mallet-Stevens himself said "the architect sculpts one single massive block: a house". The buildings were listed in 1975 but unfortunately this was to late to protect the furniture and fittings, also designed by Mallet-Stevens, carrying on the total design tradition of his predecessors such as Hoffman and Loos.
Today the buildings are private residences.