pied-à-terre

Projection designers Yee Eun Nam and Elizabeth Barrett create a kaleidoscopic background on Chika Shimizu’s pied-à-terre set.

Besides a Manhattan pied-à-terre, there was a retreat on the French Riviera, a lavish Paris apartment and a condo in Hawaii.

Right now though Mirren is in Hollywood at what she describes as the pied-à-terre that she shares with her filmmaker husband Taylor Hackford when they’re not home at Lake Tahoe, Nev. It’s within walking distance of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, but sometimes deer — and coyotes — show up in the backyard.

So, instead of putting the austerity of his Navy Yard pied-à-terre on full display, the 40-year-old freshman has a tall chair and two massive softbox lights set up in front of the wood-paneled walls of the luxury building’s communal kitchen.

When Misra, a London-based architect and interior designer, and her husband, Rajeev Misra, had the opportunity to buy a two-bedroom pied-à-terre in Manhattan about 20 years later, it ended up being on the 38th floor of the Bloomberg Tower on Lexington Avenue.