The designer Jean-Louis Deniot reimagined an 18th-century apartment on the famed Rue DE Rivoli in Paris as a haven for modernism. Who says classical architecture and contemporary art don't mix? Few places in Paris exude as much imperial-era elegance as Rue DE Rivoli. The Rivoli, a tree-lined boulevard created by Napoleon, is flanked on one side by the tree-lined Tuileries and on the other by a row of elegant neoclassical buildings flanked by a street-facing shopping arcade.

Completed in the mid-1830s, the four-storey building was designed by the famous architects of the day, Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine, in the early 19th century. Today, the apartments offer some of the most spectacular views of central Paris, overlooking the iconic view from Place DE la Concorde to the Louvre.