A Chic Pre-War Apartment in Warsaw by Interior Designer Marta Chrapka

Marta Chrapka Pairs French Style With Polish Aesthetics

Interior designer Marta Chrapka blends together French style with Polish aesthetics in this prewar apartment belonging to a Francophile writer and his partner in the centre of Warsaw, Poland. The apartment, in a neoclassical building built in 1931
 by architect Feliks Michalski, needed to be gutted and reconfigured. Warm herringbone floors and elegant boiserie were added to create a perfect French backdrop for Italian light fixtures and mid-century teak furniture, William Morris wallpaper, marble, and even a quirky (yet chic) brass Rhubarb lamp in a perfect blend of old and new…

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Photographed by Kasia Gatkowska for Vogue Living