PA S T
PR ESE NT
A museum 20 years in the making, theBourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection
is poised to create a new culturalinstitution in the heart of Paris—one
that honors a rich history while
looking to the future. By Leslie Camhi.
Photographed by Robert Polidori.ART MARKET
Once an exchange for
the trade of grain and
the like, the Bourse
de Commerce housed
bureaucratic offices
before François Pinault
leased the building
and began a painstaking
restoration.