The living area is furnished with Mathieu Matégot nesting tables and a Charles and Ray Eames rocker; the oak structural beams date to the 17th century.
Laurent Vassilian, a French 30-something TV writer, knew exactly what he wanted. After a multiyear search, he’d finally found the right apartment on a particular Paris street: a 750-square-foot fixer-upper under the slanting mansard roof of a 17th-century building. Photography by Eric Laignel. +view resources +back to article