This is one of the events of Parisian cultural life in 2022: the opening of
Maison Gainsbourg
, located 5 bis rue de Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement.
The singer lived there from 1969 until his death on March 2, 1991. Since then, the house has been kept as it is, and will host 30-minute tours.
The legendary interior of Serge Gainsbourg is accompanied by a museum, a bookstore-boutique and the Gainsbarre: a hybrid space that hosts a café during the day and a piano-bar at night.
Located opposite, at 14 rue de Verneuil, they form the Maison Gainsbourg, the first cultural institution dedicated to the singer.
In an interview with the
JDD
, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin spoke of this openness to the public.
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Covered with tags on the outside, the house is as if frozen in time inside, the cigarette butts and the furniture not having moved an iota.
A conservation desired by the singer's daughter.
“
This is Charlotte's place.
Well done to her!
»Welcomes Jane Birkin.
“
She lasted thirty years without losing hope of ever opening it.
Can you imagine the heating required to keep things as they are, so that
Serge's
Repetto
does not rot from humidity?
"
"A place that I knew and that I fled"
Mother and daughter visited the house together a few months ago, for the first time in three decades. A passage immortalized in
Jane by Charlotte
, the documentary directed by Charlotte and which hits theaters on January 12. “
I had been there only once in thirty years, a long time ago.
(...)
It is a place that I knew and that I fled. Coming back is like going back to the house of your childhood, everything seems smaller…
”, confides Jane Birkin to the JDD.
The main challenge will be to manage the flow of visitors to this 130m² house and to ensure that the place is not damaged by the public.
"
With the passage of people, we will have to take care of conservation, humidity, etc ...
" admits Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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She is the only one of the cabbage-headed man
's four children to
have lived briefly.
A very personal legacy for her.
"It's very painful because I open the door to a moment of life so happy, so carefree ...
" confided the singer to the show
Sept à Huit
dimanche.
A place in the form of a refuge, far from the ultra-mediatized life of his family: “
When I went there, I was protected from everything.
I was under his protection.
It was quite magical. ”
The opening of
Maison Gainsbourg
is scheduled for March.
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