So after much digging, I finally realized that Coco Chanel

actually lived in a suite at the Hotel Ritz Paris...But her

flagship shop was only steps away where she worked

and had an apartment at the top of the building. Her flagship

store is in a 4 story high building.Although her actual

apartment was in this building, she only used it for entertaining.

The entrance to her shop.



She had a really interesting staircase installed that

spirals to the top of the building. There are angled

mirrors that she had specially installed that covers the

walls of the staircase leading up to the top of the building.

She did this so when they were preparing for shows,

she could see what was happenning on almost every

floor from the top and also watch the reaction to

her shows unseen.

Quite brilliant really.

The entrance to her apartment

in the same building.

There is a great room as soon as you enter her apartment

with a grand sofa and walls of books on one side.

Light coming in the windows from another side.

The famous fireplace across from the
sofa in the great room seen with
Coco Madamoiselle in some past photos.





In the fall of 2007, the most expensive campaign ever for

Chanel was launched and a group of handpicked bloggers

were invited to attend in Paris for 3 days to see the taping

of the commercial with Keira Knightly and personal tours

of the perfume factory and Coco Chanel's apartment.
These photos of Coco Madamoiselle were taken personally

by these bloggers. They were SO lucky!
Can you imagine?

I never did solve the mystery of the rooms that
Jean-Louis Deniot designed that were labeled
Coco Chanel Suite, Hotel Ritz Paris....


So what do we think of Coco Chanel's apartment?


Photos courtesy of the following blogs: NOTCOT,
Fashion is Spinach, Blographic, DeeDee, and Cool Hunting.