How to incorporate textures
After dressing the walls with powdered plaster, Marika Dru was careful in the choice of fabrics so as not to get out of Minimalist style: very rich wool and fabrics. For the bedrooms, it goes even further, playing with the acoustic side of the delicacy: «I almost wanted this surround appearance to be heard, which is the meaning of the curves that we find in the bedrooms and halls, but also of the deliberately abundant use of tissues. There is a carpet on the floor, on the steps, there are curtains, everything is closed, the room is wrapped in thirte All wool room that provides infinite comfort.
In the bathrooms, the materials and curves are wonderfully worked together, with a majestic bathtub here, slightly strict stretch marks at the bottom of fully rounded walls there, and absolutely majestic curved doors elsewhere. «I felt very free to be consistent until the end, and then there is a resonance between this circular distribution and the materials used, as well as a wink to Ricardo Bofill (we also think of Pierre Chaareau). We work with concrete, stone, a rich marble countered by a sober revocation and many other materials.»
How to create a diverse minimalism
In this articulation of brightness and matt, circular plan and more rough, travertine stretch marks, Sainte-Croix stone, pink marble and Roman plaster, Marika Dru plays with the nuances of the materials rather than with the contrasts. So it is the furniture that plays with the contrasts. From pieces designed by Atelier MKD, such as the lobby console – a task that often carries out the Interiorist With a view to achieving harmony and coherence – he has created a range of home furniture; The idea is to let pieces designed by others express themselves, pieces that have their own history, their own character, their own soul: for example, the appliques and an alabastro pendant lamp by Alainuuz, or that of the kitchen of Garnier et Linker and, in the living room, a travertine center table of Stéphane Parmentier combined with alabaster applause, a lot of years, a long time Lacadas, which interact with a couple of ARP armchairs (Atelier Reherches of Paris) of 1955 and a ceramic sculpture of the artist Han Chiao. In the dining room, the Spanish Renaissance chairs of ebony and ivory are combined with the glassware of the designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen and a Custom designed table whose reason is in several shelves and consoles of the entire Minimalist style department. As in the main bedroom, where, between two chairs of the 70s, there is a tailored table-consolence. Between the Renaissance and the 50s, 70s and 2020, Marika Dru develops a set of contrasts that avoids a look total, favoring associations.