Heritage revisited

Since launching her agency 20 years ago, Isabelle Stanislas has worked on a broad range of projects, including shops, restaurants, collectors’ homes, and even the restoration of the reception hall of the French presidential palace. Style. A sense of understatement and a respect for history and heritage emerge as unifying themes in her work. The spaces she composes are distinguished by a blend of inviting comfort, exacting refinement and a desire for timelessness. What’s new. Her recent commissions include a house in Comporta, Portugal, the residential conversion of a post house in France’s Limousin region, a house on the historical monuments registry in Normandy, and a townhouse with garden on the Left Bank in Paris.