Flacon
Former nineteenth-century glass works turned graffiti-covered creative cluster of studios, galleries and cafes.
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This guide to Flacon in Moscow starts at a giant painted Perrier bottle on a graffiti wall and goes back to the glass works that stood here from 1864, bottling scents for a French perfumer who supplied the imperial court. You'll meet a young lab technician named Ernest Beaux, and follow the plant through revolution, the Soviet years and a wartime workforce of women. Best heard standing among the murals, with the painted bottle in view.
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