House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment - Vogue Australia

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House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

The 700-acre Rosehall Estate featured huge cast iron fireplaces, ornate furniture and other glamorous finishings -- all now in a shocking state of disrepair.

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Coco Chanel's former 'love nest' discovered in utter decay

The hotel she moved into, her favorite restaurant, her boutique… Chanel's favorite places in the French capital… And some she would have loved.

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Where Coco Chanel spent her time in Paris

This intimate space above her boutique enabled her to spy on the reactions of fashion show attendees below

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

The apartment where Coco Chanel could see but not be seen, design, Agenda

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Coco Chanel's run-down Highlands hideaway is sold four years after going on market for £3m

An urban explorer took a look inside the 22-room property, where the famed designer once had trysts with her aristocratic lover

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Inside Coco Chanel's decaying Scottish mansion

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Coco Chanel's Paris Apartment - Elegant Clutter

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Coco Chanel Houses with History

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Timeline of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel & The House of Chanel – The Style Bouquet

France has given birth to many great fashion legends: Christian Dior (a Sciences Po graduate), Hermès, Christian Louboutin, and Yves Saint Laurent, to name a few of my personal favorites. There is one, however, who is more legendary than all others, who shaped women's fashion for her time and for decades to come. Gabrielle "Coco"…

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

31 Rue Cambon: The World of Coco Chanel

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Suite Coco Chanel

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

Gabrielle Chanel, the founder of CHANEL

Chanel kept a lavishly decorated apartment above her famous boutique. The grand yet intimate space is filled with crystal chandeliers, gleaming mirrors and personal gifts from her many famous artist friends. The only thing missing is a bedroom — but no matter. Every night, Mademoiselle Chanel slept at the Ritz.

House tour: inside Coco Chanel's historic and art-filled Paris apartment -  Vogue Australia

31 Rue Cambon: Coco Chanel's Fabulous Paris Flat : NPR