A triplex at the back of a courtyard
The ground floor is one room from the courtyard door to the kitchen: a sofa beside a black fireplace with its logs stacked beneath it, a dining table at the foot of the stair, and the kitchen counter at the far end. The stair is glass, treads and balustrade, and the landings above it are glass too, so the light from the roof reaches the bottom of the house.
Archik measures the apartment at 121 square meters on the floor, about 1,302 square feet, over three levels of a building it dates to the eighteenth century, at the back of a courtyard in the Sèvres-Babylone quarter.
Two measurements
The listing gives a second figure, 107 square meters under the loi Carrez, about 1,152 square feet. The Carrez law of 18 December 1996 sets the area that has to be stated when an apartment in a copropriété is sold, and it counts only floor where the ceiling is at least 1.80 meters high, leaving out walls, steps and stairwells.
Three floors
A bedroom on the ground floor has its own entrance and a washbasin. On the first floor a desk stands on the landing with two bedrooms beyond it; the main bedroom has its own bathroom, and a separate shower room completes the floor. The top floor takes its light from skylights and holds two more rooms and a shower room, which Archik offers as a study or as rooms for guests. A cellar of 16 square meters, about 172 square feet, comes with the apartment.
The neighbors
The Bon Marché and the Hôtel Lutetia are steps away. The Mérimée record for the Lutetia, at 23 rue de Sèvres and 43-51 boulevard Raspail, says the hotel was built to lodge the Bon Marché's customers from the provinces and abroad. It opened in 1910 to designs by Louis-Hippolyte Boileau and Henri Tauzin, and its facades and roofs were inscribed as a historic monument on 16 October 2007.
