the newly formed group who held meetings not just at le fauconnier's studio, but at the cafés "le dôme, , , le select", and "café de la rotonde") together with other young painters who also wanted to emphasize a research into form (as opposed to color) took over the hanging committee of the salon des indépendants ensuring that the works of painters soon to be dubbed 'cubists' would be shown together. gleizes, metzinger, le fauconnier, delaunay, léger and marie laurencin (at the request of apollinaire) were shown together in room 41.