The station is located under the Boulevard de Rochechouart, which was built on the route of the Wall of the Farmers-General in order to enforce the collection of taxation between 1784 and 1791 but demolished in the 19th century.

From the 1950s to the end of the 2000s, the side walls were covered with metal bodywork with blue horizontal uprights and illuminated golden advertising frames.

Before the bodyworks removal as part of the RATP's Renouveau du métro renovation, it was supplemented with shell yellow seats characteristic of the Motte style.

[1] They use the name of the station (without its subtitle), but are humorously turned upside down in order to play on the homophony between Anvers and envers (reverse).

The advertising frames are in white ceramic and the name of the station is written in the Parisine font on enamelled plates.