Karl Lagerfeld, who was recognized to have a portfolio of lavish homes, once mentioned: “The most beautiful house is always the next one.”
Your subsequent home might be this sleek French mansion, beforehand owned by each the late German designer and by European royalty.
The seven-bedroom property, located much less than an hour from Paris, is on sale for 2.7 million euros ($3.1 million). According to the property itemizing with realtor PYLA Paris, Manoir du Mée “is an elegant 18th-century residence” that beforehand belonged to Lagerfeld and then to Princess Caroline of Monaco.
Lagerfeld, who died in Paris in 2019, owned the property for at the least a decade till 1998. Chanel staged picture shoots there throughout that point, together with one that includes French supermodel Inès de la Fressange.
Princess Caroline and her household later lived there for six years, throughout which era her kids attended an area college. Her daughter, Charlotte, drew on the partitions upstairs and a few of that paintings nonetheless stays, in accordance to Alexis Feyfant, proprietor of actual property company PYLA Paris.
The home was in-built 1749 for a notable native household, the Faguiers, Feyfant instructed NCS in a phone interview. He mentioned one other distinguished resident was Renée Saint-Cyr, a French movie actress who made her title within the Nineteen Thirties.
The present proprietor, who doesn’t need to be recognized, purchased the property from the Monaco royals in 2014. Feyfant instructed NCS the home, which covers an space of about 5,380 sq. ft (500 sq. meters), is in a “really great condition,” and is a superb instance of traditional French structure. It may function a household dwelling but additionally as a reception venue or inventive house, he added.
“The atmosphere of the house feels like a private club,” he mentioned. “You have mouldings, wall panels, Versailles parquet, fireplaces — it’s really authentic. You’ve got a gaming room then a bar where you can pour yourself a little cocktail and then you end up in the library lounge by the fireplace.”
According to the itemizing, the home is set in about half a hectare (1.25 acres) of parkland. The property’s different highlights embrace a big kitchen, vivid reception and dressing rooms, and as well as to the primary home, there is a smaller visitor home of virtually 2,000 sq. ft (186 sq. meters).
Beside his function on the helm of Chanel, Lagerfeld was additionally well-known for his many luxurious properties. Fashion author Patrick Mauriès, co-author of “Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Houses,” instructed NCS in 2024: “He was always moving, he couldn’t imagine himself stuck in a period or style.”
Another of his former properties offered for 10 million euros ($10.8 million) in 2024. The three-room Paris condo, located on the Seine and reverse the Louvre, offered for practically double its record worth of 5.3 million euros ($5.7 million).