My Space: Delfina Delettrez Fendi

A look inside the eccentric Paris apartment of the jewellery designer unearths more than a few gems.

- Alice Cavanagh

Walking into jewellery designer Delfina Delettrez Fendi’s one-bedroom apartment in Paris is like stepping into another time and place—a scene from Mad Men, if film director and aesthete Luca Guadagnino were charged with an Italian remake. Nothing you see here is contemporary: the 31-year-old has an enviable flair for mixing antiquities such as Venetian lamps, Roman columns (which she’s mounted on walls) and ancient tiles from Naples with mid-century modern Italian furniture. “Even the toilet is from the sixties,” she laughs.

For 10 years now, this Paris apartment has been a second home for Delettrez, who currently lives in Rome with her partner, the musician Nico Vascellari, their twin sons, and her 11-year-old daughter Emma. She first discovered this spot after visiting her great-aunt Carla Fendi’s apartment just next door, and became determined to find something of her own here. “I felt a connection with this square because it’s so unexpected,” she says of the location, just off the bustling boulevards of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.