Sarah Lavoine, the Parisian designer behind some of the city's most photographed interiors, on what makes a French apartment a French apartment. 192 pages of color, mix, and the kind of restraint that reads as confidence. Hardcover, published by Abrams in 2016.

The kind of book the reader keeps next to her own design notebooks. She marks pages. She brings it on apartment hunts.

A gift for the friend renovating. The new homeowner who has been pinning pictures of Paris for a year. A bridal shower for the bride who already has the apartment but not the eye yet.

Sarah Lavoine launched her interiors practice in Paris in the 1990s and has since built a brand of furniture, paint, and small objects under her name. The book is her first.