Property News · January 20, 2018

‘Paris is home’: a creative couple’s colourful apartment | Homes


This entrepreneurial French family never stays in one place for long, but for now a bright Paris apartment is homeParis’s centuries-old apartment buildings, before Haussmann took over the city’s planning, are demure places, hidden behind huge, street-facing doors. Usually, a small door is embedded within. Step through and, in Victoire de Taillac’s case, you enter a courtyard with a grand staircase sweeping off to the right and the apartments themselves. But De Taillac’s family home is to the left. A modest two-floor 1930s flat (“like two shoeboxes stacked on top of each other”) it is perched on top of this 18th-century former hôtel particulier, and accessed via the servants’ entrance.A narrow spiral staircase leaves you dizzy by the second floor; the apartment is on the seventh. How you manage the tiny, worn steps in heels, or lugging a suitcase, is anyone’s guess. There is a lift, says De Taillac, but it’s been broken for months. So she has been buying food a day at a time. Her wine is delivered: “They send the young guy,” she laughs. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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