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"Chic Paris Apartments\nOur new gallery of homes in the City of Light\n\"The architecture is very classical 18th century\u2014exactly matching the Palais-Royal garden outside\u2014but the furniture, lighting, and decorative objects are a mix of pure Art Deco, contemporary, and 18th century,\" Jacques Grange says of the residence he designed for himself in Paris. He refers to it as \"the house of a collector,\" a place to showcase the things he loves, from favorite paintings and sculptures to found art and furnishings. Pictured: In the living room, a comfortable 19th-century chaise longue, a Jean Roy\u00E8re low table from 1950, two boxy 1925 club chairs by Francis Jourdain, an Emilio Terry chair from 1940, a Jean-Michel Frank armchair from 1930, and an 18th-century desk are arrayed around a contemporary Iranian carpet. (September 2007)\nFrench interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch reimagined his Paris apartment on the Left Bank\u2014in shambles the first time he saw it\u2014reconfiguring rooms and unifying the interior elements. \"The apartment works because it's in accord with modernist architectural thinking and with today's lifestyle,\" the designer says. \"It would never occur to me to design traditional rooms in this apartment. The interiors, I felt, had to follow the forward-thinking 20th-century architecture of the building. Whatever was superfluous had to be eliminated.\" In the entrance hall, he opted for simple stuccowork to complement the floor's design. Swedish Art Deco pieces\u2014including a chair by Erik Gunnar Asplund and, in the music room, an Asplund piano\u2014enliven the spaces. (February 2008)\n\"The objective was to create a harmonious interplay of French and Asian styles, both classical and modern, in an apartment with high ceilings and original moldings and fireplaces,\" designer Christopher Noto says of his pied-\u00E0-terre in a Haussmann building near the Palais-Royal in Paris. He had lived in the French capital as a student and was drawn back. \"I'm always amazed, looking around at the beauty of the place,\" he says. \"I always wonder if I'll ever get tired of coming back to Paris, but I never do.\" Pictured: In the living room, Noto covered the wall panels with an aquamarine silk from Rubelli and refinished the yellow parquetry floor several times \"to achieve the correct warm gray tone,\" he says. Asian touches include a 16th-century bronze-and-silver Thai Buddha and a Ming dynasty fretwork panel, at right. (September 2009)\nArchitect Chakib Richani rejected the notion of Parisian influences when creating fashion designer Elie Saab's apartment in Paris. \"The interior was designed to have a soul of its own, free from the surroundings\u2014a private refuge for Mr. Saab and his close friends,\" Richani says. Pictured: Mirrored screens line a wall in the master bedroom. \"My basic design statement is to add character through new elements that repeat, distort, and attract in their own right, leaving the architectural elements untouched,\" he explains. (December 2009)\nTimothy Corrigan united French elegance with American comfort in a California client's Parisian pied-\u00E0-terre. Says the resident, \"Fantasy! I knew that's what I wanted from the start: a French fantasy where I could act out my idea of being a Parisienne in a style that was as different as possible from my day-to-day life back home.\" Pictured: The living room's chandelier, 18th-century bronze gueridon, and carpet were all purchased at auction; the drapery and cut-silk pillow fabrics are by Clarence House. \"One thing I've never understood about French interiors is the furniture,\" remarks Corrigan, who chose large pieces that dominate the main rooms without crowding them. \"The French have this amazing variety of grand, beautiful spaces, and they furnish them with a few spindly chairs that no one wants to sit on!\" (December 2007)\nDesigner Peter Marino brought a 1930s sensibility to a couple's duplex in Paris's Palais-Royal. \"I felt that the French modernism of the \u201820s and \u201830s was an appropriate point of reference for both the classical architecture and the Minimalist art,\" Marino says. \"It was a style born in Paris: a synthesis of coolness and warmth that represented the last great period of hand-fabrication and the first of radical simplicity.\" Pictured: The salon has a low table designed for the space by artist Jenny Holzer. Above the sofa is Untitled #20, 1988, by Agnes Martin. The bowl and vase are by French ceramists \u00C9mile Decoeur and \u00C9douard Cazaux, respectively. (December 2003)\n\"It's simple and elegant,\" designer Juan Montoya says of his tiny Parisian pied-\u00E0-terre, which he renovated. \"Everything has to be kept as neat and tidy as on board a ship, and I find that very soothing. Of course, I have also kept to the play of dark and light colors and simple fabrics that I favor for all the apartments I design. But here I have everything in miniature, like a Japanese garden, and sometimes I can't wait to escape the bustle of New York for this little haven of Parisian peace.\" In the living area, Mathias Bengtsson's aluminum Slice chair is next to a Scandinavian armchair. Antique floorboards ground the space. (September 2007)\nTo live in Paris for a year with her husband and children had been a dream of New York interior designer Penny Drue Baird. So when she suddenly decided to make this dream a reality, designing her 4,000-square-foot apartment was an exercise in speed and resourcefulness. \"My husband says it's his favorite home,\" she points out. \"I like the apartment's casual feel. But the best part was being in Paris, where culture is so accessible. We took the kids to Florence to see Brunelleschi's dome. We went to Pompeii. Everything was so easy to arrange. Living there was a dream.\" Pictured: The understated, well-appointed library is filled with a 19th-century black leather trunk, a chesterfield sofa and matching club chairs, three Louis XIV\u2013style armchairs, a painted desk, and a bookcase Baird spied at a local flea market. (September 2006)\nWhen it comes to interior designer Jean-Paul Beaujard's style, you can't take France out of the Frenchman. His urbanity, theatricality, and refinement are quintessentially Gallic, and they inform everything he does, including the interiors of his Paris apartment\u2014situated on the top floor of a 1910 building in the heart of the seventh arrondissement. \"It is like an artist's studio with big high ceilings and all the light and balconies everywhere,\" he says. \"Just in the middle of one of the balconies upstairs is a view of Notre Dame Cathedral, which is always very spectacular at night. On the other side is the Eiffel Tower.\" Pictured: A Louis XVI chair stands in the guest room. A Madeleine Castaing wall covering provides an elegant backdrop for the 19th-century Venetian glass mirror, which hangs over a Regency mahogany coin chest. (September 2006)\nFrench interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch's duplex overlooks one of Paris's most exclusive addresses: the \u00C9lys\u00E9e Palace, once home to Mme. de Pompadour and now the official residence of the French president. \"The view is the highlight of the apartment,\" he remarks. A window in the master bedroom, above, frames the Eiffel Tower perfectly. In this room, Yovanovitch lined the walls with Italian brown cashmere and opted for dark colors and darker woods to bring a sense of intimacy to the space. The circa-1920 watercolor of lions is by Paul Jouve. (September 2004)\n\"I went totally out of control doing this place,\" admits designer Juan Pablo Molyneux, who bought and renovated the lower two stories of Paris's 1618 H\u00F4tel Claude Passart for himself and his wife, Pilar. \"It expresses the sum total of my knowledge. Everything I love is here: a historic setting; modern paintings; the most sophisticated Russian, Chinese, French, and Italian furniture.\" Pictured: \"The dining room, my favorite room in the apartment, was designed as a singerie,\" Molyneux says. Monkeys representing the owners appear in the oils by Frederic Monpoint; more simians frolic on the embroidered draperies. The marquetry chairs are Italian. (March 2004)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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