The lockdown in Paris during the pandemic didn’t affect the interior-designing husband and wife duo Dorothée Boissier and Patrick Gilles as much as it could have. A few months before the chaos started, the couple and their two children moved into an apartment in the center of Paris next to the famed Parc Monceau. The flat had previously been vacant for about 15 years, the postcard-perfect garden overgrown.
The property once belonged to Marjorie Merriweather Post, at one time one of the wealthiest women in the world (and builder of Mar-a-Lago), and later her daughter Eleanor Post Hutton. Gilles and Boissier purchased it in 2018 and restored much of its original Haussmannian glamour: “We really
