When the iconic, oversized, Charles Zana sofa that Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays bought for her Parisian-chic-meets-London-classic apartment wouldn’t go up the stairs, she hired a crane, took out a window, and made a hole in the ceiling to allow it in.
"It was worth it as it set the scene for the flat and is a major contributor to the slightly masculine London club atmosphere I wanted to achieve," she says, speaking of her modern home, an apartment on the third floor of a Victorian townhouse in South-West London.
