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HOMES

is home to three bedrooms, each with its
own bathroom and dressing room. To top
it all off, a staircase leads up to a lovely
terrace overlooking the city’s roofs and
the cathedral spire.
Delly teamed up with architect François
Moreau to create this staircase, the most
difficult part of the renovation. “We had
to change our plans four times before
being given planning permission — the
whole process took 18 months,” she says.
“Meanwhile, the house remained gutted
for six months, preventing any other work
from being done. It rained in the house…
I bought 30 buckets in to collect all the
rainwater. It was a real nightmare!”
An 11m-tall atrium capped with a glass
roof links the home’s different levels and is
decorated with 1960s Rotaflex pendant lights
hung at different heights to enhance their
sculptural silhouettes. “In the evening, the
globes diffuse a beautiful light,” says Delly.
They’re the most expensive homeware
items in the house, which was renovated >

TOP Personality is brought into this bedroom via a quirky
collection of old Chinese brushes hung artfully on the wall.
On either side of them are more wall lights from the Selency
fleamarket. ABOVE A few steps up from this bedroom, a
small bathroom filled with vintage fixtures is lit by a skylight.
A shelf built into the wall provides a little extra storage in the
absence of a vanity drawer.

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