Atelier Brancusi

Paris


Northwest of the main building of the Centre Pompidou, this reconstruction of the studio of Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957), designed by Renzo Piano, contains some 160 examples of the sculptor’s work.


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