A project built on trust for a couple whose children had left home. Our challenge was to bring contemporary character and fluidity to an apartment in a 1930s building in the 16th arrondissement. The owner is passionate about street art and cooking, and wanted a bright apartment despite its first-floor location.We swapped the courtyard-facing kitchen with the street-facing principal bedroom. The kitchen now opens to the living area through a full-height glazed partition, bringing light and transparency. The new bedroom, being darker, opens towards the entrance through a half-height glazed screen above a low storage unit. A study corner extends the sleeping area.
The bathroom became a shower room with a generous walk-in shower and a laundry area concealed behind bespoke slatted birch doors.
Moving away from conventional artist’s-studio glazing with regular vertical bars, we chose a glazed screen with diagonal divisions whose contemporary pattern responds to the street art. A Hexa 8 pendant by Le Deun echoes these sharp diagonals. The kitchen glazing has a calmer, more regular pattern without becoming ordinary or monotonous.
The result is harmonious, restrained and contemporary.
