Paris Apartments

The quintessential Paris residence?charming, surprising, and beautiful?is alive and well and given a whole new twist in this collection of images that highlight exciting trends in the world of French interior design. Taken from a variety of perspectives, these full-color photographs of works by such renowned architects as Roland Beaufre, Bernard Desmoulin, Christophe Pille, and Dominique Perrault, reveal clever and creative uses of space and light: walls, windows and plantings that bring the outdoors in, whimsical solutions for storage and clutter-reduction, staircases and hallways that transition with flair, transparent flooring that feels like walking on air. Like the inhabitants of any major city, Parisians define themselves through their living space. As Paris Apartments shows, that means lives lived with humor, grace, imagination, and the highest aesthetic standards.