When French interior designer Laura Gonzalez started to design the principal bedroom of this 250 square metre apartment in Paris’s 16th arrondissement her initial intent was to create a “very gentle, peaceful” atmosphere. “I wanted it to feel like a floating cloud,” she says. She installed a number of low-key elements – a natural bullrush rug, a Soho Home leather ottoman, and a pair of burlwood tables by Rose Uniacke. Then, she recalls, she got the urge to be a little more expressive. “I couldn’t help myself,” she laughs. “I had to add something.” That “something” turned out to be fabric on the wardrobe doors by Jack Lenor Larsen with a geometric pattern and, for the bed, a plaid with a panther motif. “Since I started working for Cartier four years ago, I’ve become obsessed with panthers,” she says. The big cat is one of the legendary jeweller’s most enduring symbols.
This story is from the December/January 2022 edition of Belle Magazine Australia.
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