Gertrude and Leo lived together in the rue de Fleurus from 1903-14. A 1968 article in the New York Times (written at the time the collection was being sold and dispersed; some of it has been reassembled for this exhibition) commented in a pre-Midnight in Paris fashion: 'On a typical Saturday evening, 60 years ago, one would have found Gertrude Stein at her post in the atelier, garbed in brown corduroy, sitting in a high-backed Renaissance chair, her legs dangling, next to the big cast-iron stove that heated the chilly room.' Here is some more background to the Stein collection.