a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building
bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room
From grand 19th-century apartments with soaring ceilings to former industrial lofts transformed into artistic havens, Paris’s Airbnb scene reflects the same blend of romance and reinvention that defines the city itself.
But then, nothing has been done to the property since Dubbeldam turned the more than 10,000-square-foot space into two apartments and two offices with two terraces in the mid-aughts (back when architects still had quaint notions of Tribeca lofts being live/work spaces).
Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.
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Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Some of the images from Katrina have been indelible, too − of desperate people trapped for days on their roofs or in their attics to get above the floodwaters and of thousands taking chaotic refuge in the Superdome.
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