Rue Vavin is pleasantly lined by boutiques, cafés and restaurants. The building at no 26, designed in 1912 by architect Henri Sauvage, who founded the Low-priced, hygienic accommodation company in 1903, allows maximum light to enter the flats thanks to balcony-terraces. Its white enamelled ceramic façade, underscored by blue, is quite spectacular. The last scenes of Last tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci were shot here.