Given that most of the light streams down from clerestories in the absence of horizontal views, I certainly felt as if I occupied a small, undisturbed island quite separate from the bustle of the rest of the city. I emerged on Boulevard de la Bastille feeling fresh yet slightly disoriented, and proceeded to stick my nose into the adjoining bookstore, Bookstorming, for another undisturbed spell of time.  Photo 11 of 11 in The Red House, Paris by Tiffany Chu

The Red House, Paris

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Given that most of the light streams down from clerestories in the absence of horizontal views, I certainly felt as if I occupied a small, undisturbed island quite separate from the bustle of the rest of the city. I emerged on Boulevard de la Bastille feeling fresh yet slightly disoriented, and proceeded to stick my nose into the adjoining bookstore, Bookstorming, for another undisturbed spell of time.