A Paris pied-à-terre by Giampiero Tagliaferri inspired by Françoise Sagan

The starting point was a book. Los Angeles-based designer Giampiero Tagliaferri was reading Françoise Sagan's 1965 novel La Chamade when an American client, from a hospitality family, asked him to do up a pied-à-terre in Paris's Triangle d'Or. Sagan's Paris of nights spent drifting between apartments stuck, and he pictured Yves Saint Laurent and Betty Catroux coming home after a long night out. The flat, he says, should be the place everyone ends up until morning.

The apartment had lost its Haussmann mouldings over the years, and rather than fake them he treated the shell as a blank canvas with a 1970s lean. Stainless-steel panelling wraps the living room, sofas are in pale suede, and a floor-to-ceiling ceramic mural made with Milan's Fondazione Officine Saffi catches the streetlights at night. Floors are pale Parisian stone; Cipollino marble turns up in the bathroom and kitchen.

The bedroom is the showpiece: rounded corners, cream suede overhead, a leather bed on a dark lacquer platform. Vintage pieces by Osvaldo Borsani, Carlo Scarpa, Angelo Mangiarotti and Gabriella Crespi sit beside art gathered by advisor Truls Blaasmo, from a Roman torso to Duchamp and Wolfgang Tillmans.

It's a private home, so this one is for reading rather than visiting, and a good one for anyone who likes interiors with a story behind them.

Our summary of a story from Architectural Digest, published 9 October 2026. Read the original

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