Ditto shopping for things to put in his homes. Louboutin has two storage facilities– one beyond Paris, the other in Portugal. Both are heaving with furniture, carpets, flooring, doors, and art that he has picked up on his continuously travels or at dealerships and auctions. Like the kitchen area’s enormous blue doors, which he found in Egypt in the late 1990s, and the ornate stone fireplace exterior, which originated from Iran in 2009. You might call him a collector. Or you could call him a hoarder, albeit of the unique and luxurious. What is specific is having so much things can be a challenge.Take the kitchen
flooring here. It’s magnificent: A complex geometric pattern made from black, off-white, gray, and brick-red marble, “from a palace in Damascus,” he said. He bought it at his good friend Pierre Passebon’s Galerie du Passage, an art and antiques store in the Galerie Véro-Dodat, a couple of doors down from Louboutin’s very first boutique, which opened in 1991.
< img alt ="Image might contain Inside your home Interior decoration Furniture Bed Wood Stained Wood and Bed Sheet" src=" https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/69a84b3e54a24e176346f4a1/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/AD0426_LOUBOUTIN_6%2520copy.jpg "/ > A bed by Mario Ceroli for Poltronova, inspired by Rome’s iconic Bocca della Verità water fountain, centers the bed room. The bedcover was bought at the souk in Luxor, Egypt, and the ceramic llama and metal lanterns were both found at a flea market.
Art: Mario Ceroli
In the office, a 17th-century Italian mirror hangs above a 19th-century Regency-style bookcase, on which is displayed a collection of Kachina figures from North America and other things including, at center, a Yup’ik mask from Nunivak Island framed by a crown from Bhutan.
Louboutin understood he wished to put the floor in the cooking area–“It would tell us what to do with the room,” he described– so he went to the Paris warehouse to try to find it. “We couldn’t discover it,” he remembered. The tale conjures up the closing scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the wood cage consisting of the Ark of the Covenant is reposited amongst countless comparable containers in a United States government storage facility. Bereft, Louboutin created a parquet flooring as a replacement. “And at the minute we were about to install it, the storage manager called and stated they ‘d discovered the Syrian floor!”