Mandar

An apartment in the heart of the Montorgueil neighbourhood in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement, where an elderly couple had lived for over thirty years.

This was our starting point in a building typical of historic central Paris. We retained the bathroom’s location while converting it to a shower room, and removed the kitchen from the entrance to create a laundry area and study corner lit from the courtyard. The generously proportioned dining room was reduced to accommodate a bespoke open-plan kitchen, with a black granite-effect Polyrey Compact Monochrom worktop and a smooth matt-white Polyrey bar counter.

Blue provides a unifying thread throughout the apartment: hexagonal cement tiles by Bahya Déco in the study and laundry, bespoke white tiles with royal-blue and midnight-blue cube motifs by Bahya Déco in the shower room, a blue lacquered-glass Lacobel splashback, and a blue headboard niche in the bedroom.

Carefully chosen lighting illuminates the living spaces—Artemide in the dining room and Vibia LED pendants in the kitchen—while bespoke bookcases occupy the spaces left by disused chimney flues, giving the home an intimate yet contemporary character.

An apartment in the heart of the Montorgueil neighbourhood in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement, where an elderly couple had lived for over thirty years.

This was our starting point in a building typical of historic central Paris. We retained the bathroom’s location while converting it to a shower room, and removed the kitchen from the entrance to create a laundry area and study corner lit from the courtyard. The generously proportioned dining room was reduced to accommodate a bespoke open-plan kitchen, with a black granite-effect Polyrey Compact Monochrom worktop and a smooth matt-white Polyrey bar counter.

Blue provides a unifying thread throughout the apartment: hexagonal cement tiles by Bahya Déco in the study and laundry, bespoke white tiles with royal-blue and midnight-blue cube motifs by Bahya Déco in the shower room, a blue lacquered-glass Lacobel splashback, and a blue headboard niche in the bedroom.

Carefully chosen lighting illuminates the living spaces—Artemide in the dining room and Vibia LED pendants in the kitchen—while bespoke bookcases occupy the spaces left by disused chimney flues, giving the home an intimate yet contemporary character.