Diana Bartlett’s most private quarters

PRIVATE QUARTERS, DIANA LOUISE BARTLETT, PARIS 2025

In her Paris pied-à-terre, Diana Louise Bartlett has created a home that feels at once sleek and spontaneous — a space of deliberate choices and easy living. The rooms are composed in soft contradictions: baby blue and mustard, as she puts it, “because most of the time I feel like a little boy.”

Percale in Shirt Blue/Burgundy — perfectly pressed, purposely misplaced.

The living room unfolds like a still life — a mustard sofa grounded by leopard underfoot, a marble table heavy with patina, and velvet cushions in brown and blue, catching the afternoon light. A single butterfly rests on the wall — one of many small gestures that make the apartment feel deeply personal, almost improvised, yet perfectly resolved.

Teddy Velvet Pillows in Mist and Walnut – proof that calm and bold can share a sofa.

Bartlett’s home is more about mood than perfection. The bedroom, lined with striped wallpaper and anchored by crisp percale, hums with quiet rhythm. Light filters in from the street, falling across checkerboard wool and the amber glow of bedside lamps. Each corner tells of her constant movement — books half-read, a suitcase tucked beneath the chair, a camera on the table.

Crisp meets bold — Percale and Kelim in quiet rebellion.

“I travel more often than not,” she says, “so when I come home, I just want to be really cozy.”

That sense of comfort, of coming home, defines the apartment’s allure. It’s worldly yet grounded — a portrait of personal style, refined but undone, much like Bartlett herself.

Photographed by Diana Louise Bartlett in Paris, 2025.