As many have previously blogged about, fashion designer Christian Lacroix Parisian apartment is on the market for $2.5M US$ (2M Euros). The apartment is located in a historical 17th century building in the heart of the Marais, close to the Place de Vosges and the Picasso museum. The town house (hotel particulier) has 4 bedrooms, 13' high ceilings, a messanine library, original moldings and guilding, and state of the art bathrooms and kitchen and an interior terrace.
I would like to move in, s'il vous plait!
I'm not much of a gardener, but would just love to have a small interior courtyard garden. Can't you just see spending a lovely morning with a delicious petite dejeuner of croissant, strawberry jam, café au lait and a good book to enjoy?
Lacroix maintained the original integrity of this 17C building - the moldings, parquet floors, labaryntine floor plan - while adding in his signature style palette of contemporary forms and colorful palette.
From Christian Lacroix's website: "A house, therefore, is a refuge, but a refuge which must change, grow, and alter incessantly, run off in every direction, not refuse any possiblility, always going in the sense of the indefinable. This unites the houses and gardens of Pompei to furniture close to Giacometti, to the 16th century curiosity cabinet, to the wood and slate of a Japanese bathroom, to the sitting room of an English cottage, to the bedroom of a Russian datcha, or to the atelier of the Facteur Chevall…"
Lacroix's 2009 collection shows a strong relation between his fashion and interiors taste.
I can't say I love his decorating style - a little too eclectic and disjointed.
So, I got to thinking, daydreaming really, about how I would decorate this fantastic apartment:
What do you think? I can see some pretty great blogging coming from this spot!
Where is your dream pied-a-terre?
source: London Telegraph
