The daughter of the famous designer, the CEO and creative director of the Sonia Rykiel Fashion House, Nathalie Rykiel, is not torn between home and work. Her mansion with country garden is located in Montparnasse, a stone’s throw from the office and the brand’s flagship store.
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- Living room.
- The owner of the house Natalie Rykiel – in the reflection of the garden mirror.
If you look at Paris from a helicopter, you can discover absolutely incredible corners, ”says Natalie. One of them is her own house from the beginning of the 19th century, with a large, atypical for the French capital, a bucolic garden. In the Montparnasse district, among the houses of the 1930s (Natalie’s favorite era!), He hid so well from passers-by that they do not even suspect of his existence. Crowds of people walk past him to the cinema and shops, but here you can hear only the singing of birds. “I am a woman from the Left Bank, and I don’t want to live anywhere else. Do you know what words best describe the ladies with Rive Gauche? They are bohemian, artistic, creative, romantic … My house is the same, ”explains the hostess.
- Winter Garden. View from the patio.
- There is no perfect order on a French woman’s dressing table. This also applies to the bathroom and dressing room. “I am an ideal consumer,” Natalie Rykiel admits. – All the time I try something, buy something – for myself, for my mother, for my daughters. ”
When Natalie was looking for an apartment 18 years ago, she wanted something very special, preferably near the flagship store and office on Boulevard Saint-Germain. Last year, the company founded by her mother celebrated its 40th anniversary. Natalie has been working in it for at least 20 years – she supervises fashion shows and the development of the Rykiel perfume line. Opening a Rykiel Woman store in 2002 and selling not only clothes, but also sex toys there is her idea.
- The winter garden is the heart of the house, here they dine, communicate and receive guests. On the shelves are vases, Fornasetti.
- According to the hostess of the house, the right furniture should be comfortable first of all. And still beautiful. Like this armchair – re-wrapped in a fabric with embroidered floral motifs from Kaffe Fassett.
“Walking to work is the ultimate luxury!” Not to mention the fact that the house where she grew up is just a hundred meters away: “He is nearby, but with her parents everything was much more bourgeois, more traditional. However, my mother just loves to come to visit me! ” Not far away is Natalie’s father’s boutique, Laura, which sold the first Poorboy sweater in the 1960s, making her mother famous in the blink of an eye.
- A pair of Louis Ghost armchairs (Kartell, designed by Philippe Starck) and absolutely out-of-breed things … Natalie Rykiel shapes her world without bourgeois snobbery.
- There are a lot of books in the house – there are cupboards in each room, the hostess reads three books at a time.
Mansions in Paris are doll houses with low ceilings. And this one is a three-story giant with an area of more than 300 square meters. Large spiral staircase, high windows with shutters. In the basement there is a playroom and a laundry room, on the ground floor there is a kitchen and a winter garden, on the second floor there is a bedroom where Natalie watches TV and an office where she works in the evenings. Children’s rooms are upstairs. The eldest daughters, who are 24 and 22, live separately, while the youngest is 12, and she still hangs her drawings around the house. There is enough space for the realization of creative fantasies. Natalie insists that there is no style in her interior in principle – she spontaneously buys what she likes. Most often – mirrors. “Whenever a piece of sky or a tree comes into your field of vision, hang a mirror in front of you,” Natalie advises. She even has mirrors in the garden: “It’s funny to watch how everyone who enters or leaves stares at his own reflection.” When it comes to furniture, Natalie is an absolute conservative. “If you can’t flop into a chair, there is no point in it,” she says flatly.
- All beds in the house have Sonia Rykiel sheets.
- On the tea table in the garden is a teapot from the Leningrad Porcelain Factory with the famous cobalt mesh.
From time to time, furniture begins to roam the house. Something comes, something leaves, Natalie repaints the room or changes the carpet … But the general appearance practically does not change from the change of the places of the terms. “My daughters grew up here. Here they rode along the railing. And I am happy here – alone or in a large company. Always. This is a place that I will never leave. “
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