From that time forward, Percier conducted a student atelier, a teaching studio or workshop.
He then returned to California to begin his career and set up his own teaching studio.
Yet he was always most at home in the teaching studio.
Many of the teaching studios inside the building still have the original fireplaces and mantles.
He had a private teaching studio in New York.
With the war over he decided to stay and settled in Cape Town, where he set up a teaching studio.
It comprises a 186-seat auditorium with full backstage and technical facilities, including three large teaching studios.
In 1908 he opened his own teaching studio in Montreal which he ran for over the next decade.
His teaching studio can be seen today in the main building of the Colburn School and serves as an inspiration to the students there.
Initially this was both a travel center and a piano teaching studio.