Karl Lagerfeld’s futuristic Paris apartment sells
for €10m
The late fashion designer lived at the flat
overlooking the Seine River for a decade
Agence
France-Presse in Paris
Tue 26 Mar
2024 16.50 GMT
The
futuristic Paris apartment of the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has been
sold for €10m (£8.5m) at auction.
The final
price, €11m including notary fees, was roughly double the guide price, set at
€5.3m. No details were given of the buyer.
Located in
a 17th-century building on Quai Voltaire, the three-room home has a view
overlooking the Seine River and the Louvre museum.
The
apartment of 260 sq m has a 50 sq m dressing room and was completely
refurbished by Lagerfeld “in a futuristic style with a concrete floor and
sections of sandblasted glass”, according to the notary.
German-born
Lagerfeld, whose spectacular creations and shows for Chanel, Fendi and his own
brand had a profound impact on the fashion world, lived there for about 10
years until his death aged 85 in February 2019.
His office
and library is now open to the public as a bookshop and event space in the
Latin Quarter of Paris.
A series
about his life, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, starring Daniel Brühl, is due to
stream on Disney+ in June.
In an
interview with AFP earlier this month, Bruhl said he had tried to emulate
Lagerfeld’s extreme aesthete tastes.
“I tried my
best … but the furniture, the posters, the photographs, the paintings, the
books … to be such a perfectionist in aesthetics is something I absolutely
share, but obviously I’m useless in comparison,” Brühl said.
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