Enjoy luxurious home comforts in Your
Apartment in Paris!
Architect-designed tranquil and
spacious apartment
in a lovely 19th-Century building
in the heart of the Latin Quarter,
steps from Notre Dame.
Walk to: St-Germain des Pres, the Seine,
Ile St. Louis, the Marais,
Botanical Gardens, Luxembourg
Gardens, Great Shopping, Finest
French and International Dining, Historical Sites, and more.
French and International Dining, Historical Sites, and more.
As soon as you enter through the large
doors at the street level, you leave the
hustle bustle behind and walk through a
generous passageway into a well-kept, peaceful, plant-filled
courtyard. An elevator ride up to the 4th floor delivers
you to your Paris home. Building views 1, 2; Courtyard views 1, 2.
Designed by French architect, Eric
Babin, this classic modern apartment
is exceptionally beautiful. Its clean lines
and elegant simplicity create sculptural minimalism in an
antique frame. Furnished with carefully chosen objects,
the atmosphere is soothing and aesthetic.
The apartment is the size of a typical two-bedroom Parisian
flat––perfect for two and comfortable for a family
of
four––providing space and
privacy that few hotels can rival, and an experience
that is intimate, authentic, and
residential, rather than touristic and institutional.
You enter the apartment through a vestibule
with a view to the left out French windows facing a quiet inner
courtyard, and a coat closet, and full-length mirror.
From here one can access the bedroom, restroom, and dining room/kitchen,
From here one can access the bedroom, restroom, and dining room/kitchen,
which leads to the living room. Vestibule views 1, 2.
The living room's large floor-to-ceiling French windows face the
street with bright SW exposure. The original black stone
fireplace topped by a large framed mirror graces the room. It
is flanked by a wall of full-height bookshelves
(with English-language guidebooks) and
discrete built-in white cupboards that span the room. A
built-in desk with interior lighting has wiring for telephone
and high speed wireless internet access. An Ambient Group Riviera sofa converts
to a queensize bed.
There are also two Bruno Frattini
Lim endtables, a small
Lim day table, two Arne Jacobsen chairs, two Le
Corbusier chairs, an Eames lounge chair, a Paolo Rizzato Constanzina lamp, ceiling-mounted spotlights, oriental
rugs, Cable TV, and a BOSE Acoustimass stereo system. Living room views 1, 2, 3, 4.
The open-plan kitchen is fully-equipped with all new appliances,
including a
full-size convection oven,
refrigerator/freezer and a dishwasher disguised behind cabinet
doors. A slate-sheathed island overlooks the dining area.,
where a brushed-aluminum Bruno Frattini Lim table seats 8 with Arne
Jacobsen Series 7 chairs. Two Jasper Morrison Globall lights appear
to float like large bubbles over the kitchen and dining area,
providing variable atmospheric light. Floor-to-ceiling cabinets
in the dining area house kitchen and dining accoutrements. A
full-height window overlooks a small “courette”.
Kitchen/Dining area views 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
The bedroom, off the vestibule, overlooks the quiet inner courtyard through French windows that allow in plenty
of ambient light. The beds are top quality firm mattresses that
can be made up as either a queensize bed or as two twins.
A BOSE Wave Radio/CD sits on a shelf that
spans the room at the head of the bed. There are two
wall-mounted Berenice reading lights and a Paolo Rizzato Constanzina lamp.
As in all rooms, blinds are recessed into the ceiling.
Bedroom views 1, 2; Courtyard views from bedroom 1, 2.
Bedroom views 1, 2; Courtyard views from bedroom 1, 2.
A closet-lined dressing area off the
bedroom leads to the bathroom. All new
fixtures include a tub with both a
wall-mounted shower and a hand-held sprayer, heated towel bars,
Miele washer/dryer, wall-size mirror, built-in bench,
and washbasin. The separate restroom off
the vestibule is easily accessible from
anywhere in the apartment.
Bath views 1,
2;
Water Closet view.
Less than two blocks from the Seine, just
off Boulevard St. Germain, the
apartment is on Cardinal Lemoine, a
residential street lined with
small shops including grocery, tearoom, cafés, bakery,
and bookstores. Pharmacies,
newsstands, ATM machines, post office,
parking garage, taxi stands, and flower shops are all within a
couple of blocks. Around the corner are an indoor (Art
Deco style) swimming pool and gym with
squash courts that offer daily passes. There are jogging paths
along the Seine and through the nearby Botanical and Zoological
Gardens, and magnificent Luxembourg Gardens. Old-world marble
steambaths at the Turkish mosque are a few blocks away. There
are many fine art cinemas, jazz clubs, and cyber cafes in the
area as well as antique shops
and chic boutiques. Le Paradis Latin, a
nightclub up the street, features dinner floor-shows rated
among the city's top ten.
Street view.
Exceptionally superb international
food is readily available at terrific
nearby restaurants, from simple to
extravagant fare: French bistros, brasseries, and creperies,
plus Japanese, Moroccan, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, Greek and
Italian cuisine, and a new macrobiotic restaurant recommended
by food writer, Patricia Wells. The famed 400-year-old (4-star)
La Tour d'Argent is just a block
away. The neighborhood has many outdoor
markets, small ethnic specialty shops, bakeries, patisseries,
butchers, cheese, and fish stores. Among the grocery
stores is one that specializes in excellent
frozen take-out meals.
Traditionally more bohemian than bourgeois,
this is still the lively, charming, laid back, and progressive
intellectual center of Paris. Since centuries,
renowned scholars (Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Dante, Erasmus, Molière, Voltaire, Hugo, Beaudelaire,
Sartre, Barthes, and Foucault, to name a few), have studied
and taught at the many prestigious
institutions of higher learning. The area
was the setting for Puccini's opera, La
Bohème, and has long been home to
international writers, such as James Joyce,
John Dos Passos, Paul Verlaine and Ernest Hemingway.
Within a few blocks are Notre Dame,
Panthéon, Sorbonne, St. Etienne du Mont (known for its
unique blend of medieval, gothic and renaissance architecture,
and the tombs of Pascal and Racine), St.
Séverin (the city’s richest example of flamboyant
Gothic architecture), Cluny Museum (masterpieces of medieval
art and tapestries), Outdoor Sculpture
Garden, Ancient Roman Arena, and Arab World Institute (designed
by Jean Nouvelle, whose excellent rooftop restaurant and cafe
command some of the best sweeping views of all of Paris).
Promenade along the Seine for sunset
picnics and glorious views of Notre
Dame illuminated after dark in beautiful
golden lights. A quick jaunt across the Tournelles Bridge
brings you to the enchanted Ile St. Louis (where one finds
out-of-this-world ice cream and sorbet at
the beloved Berthillon).
From the Ile it is just a few more
steps to the historic Marais, a web of medieval streets on the
Right Bank, home to Place des Vosges (city’s oldest and
perhaps most beautiful square), Picasso Museum, and the
immensely popular Pompidou Center (museum of modern culture).
It is a 10-minute walk to St-Germain des Pres
where latest designer
fashions are found.
The apartment's central Left Bank
location provides incredibly easy access
to all of Paris on foot, bus (6 lines) or
métro (2 lines).
Rent includes Utilities, Phone, Cable TV,
Internet, and Taxes. (4 night minimum)
Single/Double Occupancy
$250/night
$1,735/week
$5,720/month
Triple Occupancy
$290/night
$2,015/week
$6,765/month
Quadruple Occupancy
$315/night
$2,190/week
$7,260/month
Housekeeping (rates reflect inflated value of Euro against US Dollar)
$100/wk double occup.
$120/wk triple occup.
$130/wk quadruple occup.
Security Deposit
$500 Security Deposit due 90 days prior to
rental, and refunded promptly
upon your departure by mail, provided there
are no damages.
Payment
50% Rent downpayment is due upon reserving
the apartment. The Rent balance
and refundable Security Deposit are due 90
days prior to rental. Payments
may be made by cash, personal check, wire,
bank draft, or traveler's checks,
in US dollars.
Conditions
No smoking. No pets.
Cancellations
Downpayment is fully refundable until 90
days before rental date.
Within 90 days of rental, rent payment is
non-refundable, unless another renter is found to replace you.
Arrival/Departure Times
Check-in time is normally after 2 pm. You
may move in earlier if the
apartment is already clean. (We will be
able to predict likelihood of this ahead).
If you arrive before the apartment is
cleaned, you are welcome to drop off bags, and return at 2 pm
to move in. Departure time is normally 10 am, but other
arrangements can be made if no one else is scheduled to arrive
that day.
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