«It was the project of some customers who lived in Bordeaux and They wanted to have a small apartment in Paris. They chose a fairly beautiful area, the Haussmann Boulevard, and quite well located, in the 8 Space looks like a new apartment, «he says.
«First of all, you had to return to Haussmann what Haussmann is and give character to this atypical study of 30 square meters, and then create an authentic suite of for four people with two rest zones. «To be able to receive friends – and have a kitchen, a dining room and a large sofa – in this small apartmenta «box» was created in the middle of the vital space, which also allows you to separate the entrance of the rest of the rooms. This box contains the bathroom, the kitchen organized as a bedroom – in egg shape, in the purest Haussmann style – and cabinets on the bedroom side. Up, a cover hosts a 160 cm bed for the two children.
The room and the bedroom are organized around a large sofa with capacity for eight people, tailored and whose backing acts as a large undulating screen, a sculptural object after which the bedroom is hidden. With a height of 2.40 meters, it allows the entry of a minimum of natural light into the room, while keeping it away from the sight of the room and the dining room. The simple and natural materials predominate throughout the space. The kitchen bedroom is waxed cement, its polished travertine countertop, also used for the header but left without finishing. The walls, covered with a color beige-Crema very clear, interact with the parquet floor in spike, since the color is provided by the sofa. The red and pink screen – the centerpiece of the project – is the fair contrast and provides the turn expected by the owners, «those who like colors with a little spark.» If sometimes Keep the old prolongs the story of a place, Here is the reverse path that had to take the Batik studio: «We dressed the walls with moldings, because without that such a high volume with such large windows would not make sense, explains Rebecca Benichou. The department had to recover its old character, and after all, this is the boulevard Haussmann …».