Walking or driving along the
Avenue Maréchal-de-Saxe in Lyon's 3rd arrondissement – especially in the summer, when the trees are full of
leaves – it's easy to miss the seven-storey white Art Deco building that takes
up an entire block at numbers 65-69 and continues along adjacent along Rue Le
Royer, Rue de Bonnel and Rue Vendôme.
If you do spot it, you are most likely
to notice the lines and geometric shapes covering the façade and the somewhat
dated-looking restaurant that occupies part of the ground floor of the huge building
on the Avenue de Saxe side. Glance up at the sign above the central door framed between two Doric columns, and you get a hint about the listed building's former life.
The restaurant's name? 'Le Garage'.
