Living room

If Hermès represents the beauty of Parisian perfectionism, then Petit h, the house’s fledgling métier offshoot, led by creative visionary Pascale Mussard, is all about the beauty of imperfections.

An antiques dealer by trade, Florence Lopez is also known for her extraordinary sense of interior design, dreaming up unique universes where wall colours, textiles, antique objects and furniture play off each other to create an energy of their own.

Tai Ping, a Hong Kong-based specialist in luxury hand-tufted rugs, till now has remained the preserve of an elite coterie of clients, institutions and palaces, including Buckingham Palace, the White House, and the Royal Palace of Jordan.

Making a house a home is not such an easy task, especially for newly weds, as it means marrying space, furniture, art, wedding kits etc. along with meaningful and often personal memories. We thus reached out to luxury pied-à-terre specialist A+B Kasha for their take on an “ideal” checklist to help newly weds choosing a future home.

How to revive a sleeping giant of the nightclubbing world – Les Bains Douches – while respecting its legacy as the after-dark playground for a Who’s Who of subversive notables in the Eighties? With the formidable Marie-Line manning the door the mythic nightspot was as a popular rallying ground for artists, intellectuals and designers, with among regular punters Andy Warhol, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gaultier, Claude Montana, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger and punk priestess Edwige Belmore. Joy Division even recorded a live album there in 1979.

The Spanish town of Terrassa once enjoyed its status as the textile hub of Catalonia, an industry that was muscled out with the onslaught of globalisation.