As a general rule, French interior designer Charlotte Macaux Perelman tries to respect the history of the spaces she transforms. “There’s always a soul, something to preserve,” she explains. “I like to take inspiration from what I find.” There is, however, an exception to every rule, and what interested her in this 2,500sqft apartment (which directly overlooks Paris’s Parc Monceau) was precisely the fact that there was nothing to salvage. “It was so contorted that I was certain everything had to be demolished,” recalls Macaux Perelman. The former owner had lived there for 42 years and had redecorated different rooms at different times, each in the tastes and fashions of the specific period. “It was all over the place stylistically—a real hotchpotch,” remarks Macaux Perelman.
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