{"id":31880,"date":"2025-06-16T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/?p=31880"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:31:23","slug":"who-will-be-the-new-owner-of-karl-lagerfelds-louveciennes-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/who-will-be-the-new-owner-of-karl-lagerfelds-louveciennes-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will be the new owner of Karl Lagerfeld’s Louveciennes villa?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 1st, 2025, the Paris Chamber of Notaries will host a sale unlike any other. On that day, an exceptional property steeped in history, nestled in Louveciennes in the Yvelines, will go under the hammer. More than just a piece of real estate, it is the former home of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, transformed according to the rigorous aesthetic codes and minimalist standards of the man nicknamed the \u201cKaiser of fashion.\u201d<\/h4>\n

UPDATE: Originally scheduled for June 17, 2025, the Paris Chamber of Notaries has decided to postpone the sale of Karl Lagerfeld’s Villa Louveciennes until July 1, \u201cin order to allow a larger number of interested buyers to express their interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A unique refuge on the outskirts of Paris<\/h3>\n

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Located just 20 kilometers from the French capital<\/b>, this sumptuous mansion, known as the Pavillon de Voisins<\/b>, was acquired by Karl Lagerfeld in 2010<\/b>, who turned it into his \u201cVilla Louveciennes.\u201d This neoclassical bourgeois residence, built in the 19th century, offers approximately 600 square meters of living space.<\/b> It is set in the heart of a two-hectare landscaped estate. Formerly the residence of the poet Leconte de Lisle and then of a branch of the Rothschild family, the villa is steeped in nobility. But it was Karl Lagerfeld who, with his eye for interior design and aesthetics, truly gave it a style all its own.<\/p>\n

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Even though he only spent one night there\u2014in the pool house, according to the notaries in charge of the sale, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Cauro and Arno Felber of Arias Notaires\u2014the Kaiser of fashion (Chanel, Chlo\u00e9, Fendi, KL) used this house as a place for reflection, creation, and entertaining. A true extension of his mind, it is marked by a taste for clarity, symmetry, and sophisticated simplicity.<\/p>\n

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A residence designed as a work of art<\/h3>\n

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Inside, the lavishly appointed interiors reflect the couturier’s aesthetic ambition. Far from ostentatious, the style is rigorous, balanced, and timeless<\/b>. The technical installations<\/b> have been completely renovated<\/b> and moved to the outbuildings to ensure absolute peace and quiet in the main house. A lift<\/b> has been discreetly installed.<\/p>\n

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The entrance hall of the Villa Louveciennes, where bouquets of flowers were replaced by a pair of antique caryatids \u00a9Image Sept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In the days of the fashion polymath, visitors were greeted by a pair of caryatids<\/b> mounted as lamps in the antique style, while an Art Deco rug designed by Louis S\u00fce and Andr\u00e9 Mare covered the floor. The tone is set on the ground floor, where three adjoining living rooms bathed in natural light open onto the park. In one of them, the man with the mullet and dark glasses had installed furniture designed by interior designer Bruno Paul, a German creator from the early 20th century. One of the most touching spaces is a bedroom reconstructed to look like Lagerfeld’s childhood bedroom, with its leopard wallpaper and Louis XVI period bed. It was in this room that the work that sparked his love for the Age of Enlightenment and the Baroque period was housed: a painting depicting Frederick the Great receiving Voltaire at Sanssouci Palace.<\/b> It is a poetic way of bringing memory and creation together in the same place.<\/p>\n

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Famous painting of Frederick the Great (Frederick II), King of Prussia, receiving Voltaire at Sanssouci Palace by Adolph Menzel, which hung in Karl Lagerfeld’s bedroom during his lifetime. \u00a9 DR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On the first floor<\/b>, we discover the former couturier’s workshop<\/b>, his office and, in the past, his shelves stacked with books<\/b> and several smaller rooms. Also on the same floor, one of the bedrooms housed the complete collection of La Pl\u00e9iade on one of its walls. The atmosphere<\/b> is subdued<\/b>, almost monastic<\/b>. Controlled lighting, minimalist furniture, studious silence: everything seems designed to encourage inspiration and concentration.<\/p>\n

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The top floor is more domestic. It has five bedrooms, several bathrooms, storage space, and an area dedicated to Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld’s famous Burmese cat, who was both his muse and faithful companion.<\/p>\n

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Villa Louveciennes, which belonged to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld \u00a9Image Sept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A park that reflects its owner<\/h3>\n

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Outside, the garden<\/b> follows the same theme, combining geometric precision with romantic vegetation. The paths are laid out with military precision and the vegetation is meticulously maintained. There is a tennis court, an elegant swimming pool, a large pool house and an outbuilding converted into a library<\/b>. The latter housed some of the 20,000 books in the designer’s personal library.<\/p>\n

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This architectural ensemble, rare in its aesthetic unity and quality of execution, perfectly reflects Lagerfeld’s world: a \u201clived-in\u201d place<\/b> in the strongest sense of the term, even though he spent little time there. He had turned it into a laboratory of ideas, a mental studio, a life-size projection of his taste for clean lines and scholarly culture.<\/p>\n

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A starting price in line with its prestige<\/h3>\n

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The house is now being offered at auction with a starting price of \u20ac4.635 million<\/b>. The sale<\/b> will take place according to the traditional notarial procedure known as \u201c\u00e0 la bougie\u201d<\/b>, an ancient process where the end of the auction is signaled by the extinguishing of two successive candles.<\/p>\n

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This real estate event is one of a series of posthumous sales linked to Karl Lagerfeld’s estate. In 2024, the designer’s apartment at 17 quai Voltaire in Paris was sold for \u20ac10 million, almost double its starting price. Along with the villa in Louveciennes, this is undoubtedly the final chapter in a process of heritage transfer\u2014unless other treasures resurface.<\/p>\n

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A rare opportunity for collectors and lovers of the art of living<\/h3>\n

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Beyond the financial aspect, this sale is an invitation to enter the world of a creator<\/b>. The future buyer will not simply become the owner of a property, but the custodian of a unique cultural heritage. The house still bears the traces of one of the greatest designers of the 20th century. Its walls, furnishings, and garden embody a lifestyle, a worldview, and a way of living in silence and beauty.<\/p>\n

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