Collectible real estate: this is the idea developed by certain high-end Parisian agencies to present apartments with breathtaking views as objects of art, and sell them at high prices to foreign clients in love with the capital.
On March 26, the Paris Notaries real estate auction service will try out this new concept during the sale of an apartment on Quai Voltaire overlooking the Seine and the Louvre. Located on the third floor, this property with a surface area of 260 square meters belonged to the famous fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019. If you are interested in the idea of living in a building from the end of the 17th century and living in the not a famous person, don’t expect to discover a Grand Siècle apartment with old beams, Languedoc marble fireplaces and Versailles parquet floors. With chosen words, the description of the Chambre des notaires evokes an avant-garde style, spare and organic lines.
This apartment, very long and comprising only one bedroom, is more akin to a rigorous, monastic loft, in white and metallic colors²: cement and silicone floor, frosted glass shelves which housed the couturier’s immense library, stainless steel kitchen and clinical bathroom. You have to love it, because the property is not cheap: the asking price is 5.3 million euros. An amount likely to increase if there are several bidders. Without forgetting that you will have to add around 10% in fees!