When French interior designer Émilie Bonaventure was tasked to work on a project right in her own backyard, she was immediately drawn to it. The brief from the homeowners was to renovate a hôtel particulier located in the artistic New Athens neighbourhood in Paris; this French townhouse once belonged to 18th-century actor François-Joseph Talma.
“I live in this area, which is very dear to my heart, so everything was