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ABOVE THE SEINE

at the heart of Paris required something of a leap of faith. Its owners, Guy and Emmanuelle, admit to having experienced “a certain apprehension”. Fortunately, they entrusted its renovation and transformation to very safe hands – the husband and wife duo, Olivier and Hélène Lempereur, who originally met in the offices of one of the grandes dames of French interior design, Andrée Putman, before setting up their own Brussels-based practice in 1998. That experience stood them in good stead. For, this was a project that was

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