Home Front: For Sale: Paris, France
Fashion designer Kenzo Takada’s pied-à-terre.
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In the beginning of his career, Japanese-born fashion designer Kenzo Takada could only afford to use fabric scraps from flea markets and, as a result, his designs were an eclectic mix of patterns and materials. Takada brought that heterogeneous style into his 18th-century, exotic wood–covered townhouse, located near Place de la Bastille in Paris, which manages to successfully blend Louis XV–inspired faux leopard–print chairs and Baccarat crystal vases with traditional Japanese touches, such as sliding shoji screen partitions and tatami mats. The 14,000-square-foot, five-bedroom residence also includes a skylit, indoor lap pool, which faces a wall of Egyptian photographs.$18.5 million, Emile Garcin Real Estate, +35.31.663.6363,
www.emilegarcin.com
