We had already worked with this energetic, newly retired couple on their Paris townhouse.A different challenge awaited in this wonderful house in Arcachon’s Ville d’Hiver. Arranged over two floors, the characteristic Arcachon home opens onto an established garden and swimming pool. The garden level has three children’s bedrooms and a former garage converted into a TV room. The brighter, more generous upper floor, with its characteristic painted roof structure, contains a large dual-aspect living room, an open kitchen with a dining area and the principal suite.
We chose a deliberately simple, neutral palette for the living rooms: white, black and grey, allowing colour to come from the surrounding landscape and selected modern furniture by Le Corbusier, Perriand, Noguchi and Eames. The bedrooms each have a coloured headboard wall chosen by their occupant.
In summer and winter, the house feels open and warm, welcoming its owners, their children and friends.
