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An American Couple’s Paris Home Celebrates French Style
Employing crisp white moldings, glittering chandeliers, and a small museum’s worth of antique portraits, decorator Jean-Louis Deniot conjures an American couple’s Francophile fantasy on the Left Bank.
Beneath two antique portraits in the living room stands a 1940s Carlhian armchair upholstered in linen by Romo. Deniot ennobled the space, and the library beyond, with neoclassical-style architectural details.
In the living room, an antique Venus de Milo poses on a Régence marble mantel.
The bed in the master suite is highlighted by an 18th-century corona and a Louis XV bench; the chandelier is 1880s Italian, and 1940s Jansen sconces flank the Louis XVI trumeau.
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Curtained in a Romo velvet, a light-filled entrance hall greets visitors at a Paris apartment renovated and decorated by Jean-Louis Deniot.
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The owners did not want a beautiful but impersonal apartment which could be built anywhere in the world say the owners.
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Deniot designed the master bath’s tub surround, limestone-and-marble floor, and paneling, which is decorated with framed butterfly specimens from Deyrolle; the lantern is by Vaughan, the curtains are made of a Pierre Frey satin, and the tub fittings are by Volevatch.
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By a date engraved on a window it appears that the house was built in 1725 .
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Beneath two antique portraits in the living room stands a 1940s Carlhian armchair upholstered in linen by Romo. Deniot ennobled the space, and the library beyond, with neoclassical-style architectural details.
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An antique Bessarabian rug from Beauvais Carpets inspired the color scheme of the living room, which features a 19th-century Italian chandelier and 17th- and 18th-century European portraits.
The Roman shades and the geometric-print pillow at far right are made of Jim Thompson fabrics, while Jean-François Lesage embroidery trims the silk-taffeta curtains.
The gilt-wood sofa is Louis XVI, and the cocktail table is a Deniot design.
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Deniot marbleized the mid-19th-century stone mantel, which is surmounted by a Directoire trumeau; the curtains are of a Jim Thompson silk, and the vintage Carlhian settees are clad in a Pierre Frey velvet.
design by Jean-Louis Denoit