A beautiful name, a formidable reputation
Armand Bellerose is the architect behind several of Cornelius Kraus's grandest commercial holdings. Isadora carries an older name: a French architectural family of formidable taste and exquisite standards. Together, they look as if they belong in any room Cornelius ever entered.
Cornelius hired Armand to inspect and quietly modernise several of his properties, and had once collaborated with Isadora's father. Isadora was his confidante in his later years, one of the few people he spoke to without calculation.
The architecture and old-money circle: the Vautrins, the Vales, the Wrens.
Celebrated architect responsible for many of Cornelius Kraus's sprawling properties
A celebrated architect with a recognisable language of his own: elegant panel geometry, discreet recesses, rooms that look entirely ordinary and are not. Clients buy confidence from Armand, and he protects that confidence carefully.
Talks with his hands, sketches in the air, and describes rooms the way others describe people. Confident about buildings and reticent about money. When shown anything on paper he goes silent and studies it far longer than is socially comfortable.
Daughter of a distinguished French architectural family and former confidante of Cornelius Kraus
Daughter of a distinguished French architectural family and former confidante of Cornelius Kraus. Isadora has impeccable taste, an older name than almost anyone present, and a habit of changing the subject when the Vallée Rive development is mentioned.
Impeccable manners and a slightly distant air, as though she has attended better parties. Deflects personal questions with a compliment or a question of her own. Mention of her family's past makes her brighter and more charming, which is the tell.
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