Haussmann Apartment Building in Paris

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Why is the building famous?

I know it's from the period of Haussman's redesign of the city, and the avenue bears his name, but he was a city bureaucrat, with a background in dance or theatre or something of the sort; he didn't design specific buildings only helped design the scheme of boulevards and height and massing and appearance of the buildings, streets, and city. Not that that isn't a big thing, but what about this building makes it one of the most famous in France?

At this link you can see the same apartment at a monthly rate of €10,000, available for short terms of two or three months. It's nice but very Haussmannian on that it was middle class (and now rather more.).

Why is the building famous?

I know it's from the period of Haussman's redesign of the city, and the avenue bears his name, but he was a city bureaucrat, with a background in dance or theatre or something of the sort; he didn't design specific buildings only helped design the scheme of boulevards and height and massing and appearance of the buildings, streets, and city. Not that that isn't a big thing, but what about this building makes it one of the most famous in France?

At this link you can see the same apartment at a monthly rate of €10,000, available for short terms of two or three months. It's nice but very Haussmannian on that it was middle class (and now rather more.).

Beautiful - but obscene price. And I prefer to be in the Marais - closer to things including convenience stores and late night food as well as gay bars. That area is nice - but too residential.

I'd make OP's formal dining room the living room. I really do not like awkwardly shaped spaces. All the french doors in the world can't shake the shape of that room. The kitchen is exactly what I expect in these apartments. Even freshly renovated, they're always awful.

How amazing it would be to have a Haussmann style apartment on Park Avenue. The fourth floor of this building is as close to Paris in New York as it gets. It's been divided into three apartments. The whole floor was listed years ago, but no one came along to combine them into what could be one of the greatest apartments in New York.

It’s rally it’s window shapes. Replace the all-glass windows of any new buildings with pseudo-French doors. Et voila - a Haussmann

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I like the plan, actually. The rooms are big enough, it's a better than usual arrangement and the variety of the rooms is good as well, and the ceiling heights and light...I could forgive a lot of architectural transgressions for the week tall, sunny rooms.

But then my taste in floor plans is not everyone's, and I tend to like a place or not depending mostly on it's existing configuration. Moving original walls in any big way almost always diminishes a place.

Thanks for the floorplan r2

I'm changing my mind. I'd used the library as the formal dining room. The formal living room would stay as is, and I'd hang out in the old dining room, smoking, DLing and watching MSNBC. Who would want to waste all that space to only use it occasionally?

Also, can I get MSNBC in Paris?

R5, that's a beautiful building and apartment as well. In it's subdivided state it would be perfect for me. The big, squarish tripartite windows make the place.

The galley kitchen, though it might have been better less centrally located, is just the right plan for a city kitchen. The only change that comes to mind is losing the wet bar in lieu of a short passage between dining room and bedroom.

Unit 11C/12C is for sale, but I don't need much.

No “tasteful friends”? OP just who in the fuck do you think you are?