London apartment, which was renovated to look like a luxury home in pre-revolutionary France style, was put up for sale for €7.5 million, according to portal ee24.com with reference to the British media.
If you are outside of the apartment, you would never understand what lurks inside. From the street, you see only the ordinary English dwelling house of XVIII-XIX centuries, lots of which are in the UK capital. But inside the apartment is decorated in a lush style of Louis XVI, typical France XVIII century style, with intricate hand moldings, antique chandeliers and large mirrors.
The real French homes were used as the basis of some of the rooms. The ceiling of one room repeats the design of Marquise de Pompadour palace, the powerful mistress of King Louis XV, and the dining room resembles a library at Versailles.
The owner of a luxury apartment in London began collecting XVIII century furniture many years ago, when he suddenly realized that antique items will cost him less than new. He studied the techniques necessary to recreate the pomp of the old French houses, and found a high-class workers who helped him to renovate the apartment.
In the description of the object, which has provided by Crayson agency, it is said that the floors are wooden, in the Versailles style, antique mirrors, gilding is applied by hand in a traditional style. A small plaque of modernity appears only in the Chinese boudoir, where there is a modern plasma.
The master bedroom is cleverly hidden in the mezzanine, and the dressing room is made in the Directory style. Three large windows open onto a balcony, which overlooks Hyde Park.
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