Lagerfeld's villa on sale

A villa outside Paris owned up until his death by the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, which shows both luxury and discretion, is to be sold at auction on Tuesday under a traditional method where time is counted by candles.

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Bought in 2010 by Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, the villa in Louveciennes in the Yvelines region some 15km west of Paris is to be sold at notarial auction with an initial asking price of €4.6 million (about R96 million).

A two-hectare park contains three separate houses, a swimming pool and a tennis court, surrounded by trees or walls ensuring "discretion and anonymity", said Jerome Cauro, of notaries Arias, the firm handling the sale.

The main building is classical on the outside and understated on the inside. The designer's studio occupied a large part of the first floor of the house.

"It's a property that was the showcase for his furniture," said Arno Felber, also a notary at Arias.