Time Stands Still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris Lair

Gainsbourg draped the walls of his apartment, which has just opened to the public as the Maison Gainsbourg, in black, “because in psychiatric hospitals the walls are all white,” he said. The long-contested, now beloved French singer’s home is open to the public, with everything exactly as it was…

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