inside a storied paris apartment designed by isabelle stanislas
Isabelle Stanislas has a knack for being associated with places inhabited by figures of note. The French designer, new to the AD100 this year, was recently tapped to revamp three state rooms at the Élysée Palace, the official residence of France's presidents. Recent projects include the salon and restaurant at the Château Malromé, near Bordeaux, which once belonged to the mother of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. And the designer herself lives in the former duplex of the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, on Paris's Rue de Rivoli. "I love being in spaces steeped in history," she declares.The owners of this particular majestic apartment on the Left Bank, Anna Peter Breton and her husband, would appear to have a similar predilection. He is one of France's most successful TV charger producers; she is a painter, whose canvases are inspired by their travels to destinations like Peru and Kyrgyzstan. They used to reside in a 13,000-square-foot house near the Bas...