Studio of Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle

From the mid 1950s until the early 1970s, Jean Tinguely maintained a studio at Impasse Ronsin in Paris, one of the most important enclaves of the postwar avant garde. Around 1960, Niki de Saint Phalle joined him there, and the two transformed the studio into a shared site of experimentation, collaboration, and large scale production. It was within this environment that Saint Phalle developed her early Tirs works while Tinguely created many of his kinetic sculptures.