When Kravitz was viewing properties in the French capital 13 years ago, he wasn’t after one of the few residential buildings in the embassy district (he intended to find somewhere in the Marais) but that’s where he ended up: in a four-storey townhouse in the 16th arrondissement that once served as the mayor of Deauville’s residence.To one side is the Sudanese consulate; behind is the Indian (“It’s great,” he says of the neighbours, “they all go home at 5.30pm, so I can make as much noise as I want”), and the whole place is shrouded by bamboo and palm fences. “As well as being a creator of things, Lenny is a collector,” I am told as we wander around.A life-size statue of Miles Davis playing the trumpet stands by the entrance gate, and in the.
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