Coco Chanel's apartment at 31 rue Cambon, where she received guests but never slept

Coco Chanel in her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon, in an eighteenth-century building, in the 1950s and 1960s. Coco's apartment was on the second floor of the building that became the residence of her brand. The shows were held on the ground floor, the showroom lay above, the atelier above that, and the mirrored staircase, on the fifth step of which she habitually watched the collections, led up to her private apartments. Here, in period interiors filled with books and works of art, Coco received her guests, but she never spent a night in this apartment, preferring her suite at the Ritz.