This large contemporary apartment, steps from the Luxembourg Gardens, sleeps up to 6 and has a large back garden to explore. Created by a prominent French artist, it is full of stunning sculptures – check out the Great Dane patrolling the shrubbery – and a large art collection. We love the lounge with its shimmering walls and eclectic furniture, the array of scatter cushions in the kid’s room, and the wall-to-wall windows in the master bedroom. As well as the usual family spaces, there is a large hammam (steam room) and an apartment-wide sound system and high-tech cinema screen, ideal for a movie night in (we’d recommend Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris). The apartment is on the left bank, close to local brasseries and cafés with metro and bus services just steps away.