Karl Lagerfeld’s Home on the Seine in Paris to Sell at Auction This Month

The minimalist Paris apartment that was the home and studio of the late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld is headed to auction later this month with a starting price of €5.3 million (US$5.77 million).

Nestled in the heart of the Saint-Thomas d’Aquin district, on the city’s Left Bank, the roughly 2,800-square-foot spread will go under the hammer on March 26 at the city’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, according to a news release from the Paris Notaires Services, which plays an essential role in French real estate transactions.

The apartment is on Quai Voltaire, a Seine-front street, and within a historic building dating from 1694 that belies the contemporary home inside that was Lagerfeld’s until his death in 2019 at the age of 85.

He told the New Yorker in 2007 , as he was moving into the property, that living there would be “like floating in your own spaceship over a very civilised past.”

The home has a stainless steel kitchen.
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Located on the third floor, the apartment has a sprawling living room with a panoramic view of the Seine, polished concrete floors, and walls of towering glass bookshelves that once held the designer’s vast collection of books.

The avant-garde space “embodies Lagerfeld’s visionary aesthetic,” with an “ambiance that is both luxurious and design-oriented,” the news release said.

Elsewhere in the achromatic home is a bedroom overlooking a courtyard, a dressing room, a shower room, a bathroom and a professional-looking stainless steel kitchen.

The entire home, including the bathroom, has a modern aesthetic.
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The auction “represents a rare opportunity to acquire a part of the history of fashion and of French cultural heritage,” according to Paris Notaires Services.

Much of the furniture and art that one filled the apartment has been sold at auction across a series of Sotheby’s sales .

With his iconic signature style of black sunglasses, fingerless gloves and high-starched collars, Lagerfeld was the long-time creative director of Chanel and creator of his own eponymous fashion label.

The apartment’s giant living room has polished concrete floors and walls of glass bookshelves. MEDIACORP

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Justin Kabbani, International keynote speaker and AI strategist

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Home on the Seine in Paris to Sell at Auction This Month

The apartment, located in a Louis XIV-era building on the Left Bank, belonged to the fashion designer for more than a decade until his death in 2019

International AI strategist Justin Kabbani will headline the Kanebridge Property Summit in Sydney on June 18, with tickets selling fast.