Eluard Verlaine’s Apartments

The first apartment is Eluard’s true home where he lives with his four year old daughter, Jenny. It contains three dormitories, a spacious living room, a remarkably blue bathroom, a medium-sized kitchen, two small storage rooms and a balcony with a high view of the opposite block and one of the busiest central streets of the city. This apartment seems warm and welcoming. Art, books and toys are scattered everywhere and there’s a hard plastic skeleton in one of the living room’s corners.

The second apartment has two small bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, a sea-green bathroom, a small storage room and a tiny balcony overlooking a dark alley somewhere sheltered from the rustle and bustle of city center. This apartment seems tastefully decorated with a modernistic bend but leaves the impression of little use. Everything within it seems clean and new and positioned as if to the advice of an interior design specialist.