Prices in the seventh arrondissement now range from 9,000 euros to 12,000 euros per square meter ($1,068 to $1,424 per square foot), according to Jeremy Lang of the real estate agencies France Property Search and Lost in France. “Properties aren’t really moving at any great speed, but prices are not really coming down either,” Mr. Lang said.
Much of Ms. Fine’s design inspiration came from a trip to a luxurious tented camp in India shortly after her arrival. “I didn’t have a garden, or land for a tent, so I decided to make a tented room with Indian block-prints,” she said.
The results can be seen in her bedroom and the Turkish-style sitting room in the main apartment. The walls in Ms. Fine’s ultra-pink bedroom and a silk screen standing behind a television set were both made near Jodphur by a tent-maker who she met on the trip. “I was so inspired by the process of making a tent, I asked him to make pink silk panels for my bedroom,” said Ms. Fine.
