Palm Beach Illustrated

French ACCENT

Some homes are mausoleums of “good taste,” while others are slaves to trends or pioneers of the digital age. The French Regency–style mansion of Edouard Louis and Elizabeth Anne de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais manages to present as impressively grand, but boasts an underlying refinement and solidity that makes it appear as if it has harbored generations of tradition. Yet it wasn’t always this way.

Only completed in 2004, the home, located in the upscale St. Andrews Country Club community in Boca Raton, sat empty for 10 years before the de La Tours purchased it. Gil Walsh Interiors worked with the couple over four years to renovate the interior, with the goal of merging Edouard and Elizabeth’s styles—he’s more classic, she’s more contemporary—into a harmonious union that reflects

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