Belle Epoque Preserved
Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe on the startling discovery of a perfectly preserved belle epoque apartment in Paris. In 2010, auctioneer Maitre Olivier Choppin de Janvry discovered a 1900 Bonbonnière (a bijou apartment) in Paris at the Square La Bruyère. Under a thick layer of dust, he was entering a 140-metre square apartment untouched by human hand for…