When they gave up their New York City home to live in Palm Beach, American socialite Katherine Bryan and her late husband Damon Mezzacappa missed the “metropolitan experience,” and since they loved Paris so much, they decided to buy an apartment there. Katherine, who honed a sharp eye for architectural gems while working for Sotheby’s real estate in New York, discovered a dilapidated 18th-century, first-floor apartment just steps from the Musée Rodin, and she immediately saw the potential. She then turned to to the Italian design firm Studio Peregalli – known for their top-to-bottom renovations of grand homes – to infuse the Left Bank flat with all the romance and understated grandeur of bygone Paris.
With its soaring twelve-and-a-half-foot ceilings, original plaster moldings, and a floor plan that flows easily from one room to the next, the apartment had good bones, but needed renovation and rearranging… and the results are magnifique. Let’s take a look inside! Photography by Pascal Chevallier for Elle Decor.
Katherine Bryan looking chic in her gold Les BonBons earrings!
To read more, please visit Elle Decor, or pick up a copy of the June 2017 issue… This pied-à-terre is on the cover. And to tour Katherine’s fabulous former Southampton home, designed by Mark Hampton, click here.
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Wow is a simple comment fir this Paris apartment. I adore it on so many levels. If I dream of glam Paris apartment, thus is what I would dream of! Only con is bathroom floor, makes me a little dizzy . But that’s just me. Tres chic
A fantasy that became a reality!
Love everything except bathroom floor needs to be simpler too dizzying
I love the bathroom floor. It’s so much more interesting than most. But this isn’t a terribly French apartment. It so infused with Italian taste – it looks more like an apartment in Rome. I lived in Paris, and this isn’t how Parisians decorate. That being said, it’s a lovely place. I don’t understand the fabric in the dressing area, but that’s a minor thing. The apartment does have great bones, and it looks like they kept all the original details. It’s much more warm than most modern apartments, and more in keeping with European style. Very nice.