In the center of Paris, in a nineteenth -century building, this space of 120 square meters deserved an important renewal of Organic style. At the time of purchase, moldings, cornices and chimneys evidenced an outdated cache, but the space as a whole was very compartmentalized. The client, an executive of the design passionate about the design, asked Atelier FCA and the Bréhéret gallery to devise a plan to transform the department. «We redo everything,» explains Fabrizio Fiorentino, founder of the FCA Architecture Study. «We kept the historical elements, but I designed all the carpentry of the walls, the doors, the libraries and the parquet soils.» Inspired by the interiors of Haussmann, the soils alternate straight, versescas and spike stripes, according to the room. «We exploit the potential of the department, which has high roofs and many windows,» continues Fabrizio, which highlights the importance of the architectural work, as well as decoration and artistic direction, orchestrated by the detachment gallery Bréhéret, which chose and supplied the furniture that was perfectly integrated into the Organic style.
«What I like about this project are contrasts,» says the architect. The room, for example, combines the parquet Versailles and the wooden panels with iconic pieces of the Modern designlike a leather armchair from Joe Colombo and a Dan Pollock's solid wooden center table. In the kitchen-dining roomwe find the same contrast game between a Haussmannian envelope and a contemporary distribution, enhanced by wood panels with wooden bronze effect (obtained by a carpenter with a special varnish), and a brown crockery. «It is a complicated room,» explains Fabrizio, for whom the installation of the appliances was «a headache» to hide everything behind the doors and create an island with rounded corners, but covered with Loza, a technical boast.
Behind the kitchen, a hidden door leads to the bedroom, as if to maintain the mystery and reinforce the surprise effect when entering the room, deliberately dark. «We wanted a completely different world,» says the architect. In contrast to the light and terrible colors of the ceremonies rooms, the walls of the bedroom area are of an intense blue, and the bed of the main bedroom, also blue, gently melts. «In this compact room, we have cultivated the hotel room effect«, explains Fabrizio, who added a dressing room and a totally travertine bathroom, with a touch Vintage contributed by a fortuny suspension lamp with ancient Venetian appearance.
«This is a high -end project, in which we have designed everything,» says the architect, who is delighted with the close collaboration with both the Bréhéret gallery and with the owner of the department, very involved in the renewal. The latter, fond of decoration, wanted to maintain the contrast to avoid an stereotyped bourgeois parisco interior, and create instead a living place, full of strong pieces. «The result is quiet and sophisticated, but with unexpected pieces for this type of space. In the kitchen, for example, we spontaneously think of designing a classic marble countertop. But we wanted to give character to the stay with a 70s stylehence the choice of brown crockery. The architect seems especially proud of the finished project: «I love it when you have that feeling of calm and an interior in which it is so easy to live, but with distinctive pieces that make it stand out. It is not a pilot department in which the architect imposes itself, we have really worked at six hands.»
Originally published article in AD France.