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Entries in France (286)

Thursday
Feb212013

Alia Bengana latest - part 2

Here is Alia Bengana's second project she sent over: Apartment in the heart of Paris 1st arrondissement overlooking the biggest Paris construction site. This project was about giving some personality to this apartment, creating as much as possible built in cupboards and bookshelves in an apartment that had none. The materials chosen for those small interventions here and there were natural oak, dark colored oak, lacquered mdf, and colored cement resin for the bathrooms and kitchen floor. The classical Paris molding around doors were painted in dark grey in order to highlight them with a contemporary twist. A very long and dark corridor was painted bright red. Love the floor, and the red hallway is a fun idea in an otherwise boring space!


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Thursday
Feb212013

Alia Bengana latest - part 1

I was super excited to have a couple of emails in my inbox from Alia Bengana, a Parisian architect whose work I've featured before (here and here). She sent along some info and photos of 2 of her latest projects. I love the angles in this one and the divine architectural details. 
This apartment was a classical ‘bourgeois’ Paris apartment with a big entrance and a small dark kitchen far from the living room. The main idea was to extend the kitchen to the "too big" entrance and open it, in order  to become the heart of the apartment with the book shelves and piano place on one side and kitchen with dining room on the other side. The clients wanted an open-closed space, so an internal custom made window in between the kitchen and entrance was proposed as solution to their needs. The window, book shelves and kitchen were all custom made with the same materials, natural oak, white lacquered mdf, and white corian. The idea was to read clearly the renovated spaces that where dramatically redesigned, and the spaces that were left unchanged as the living room. The kitchen table in oak and corian was designed as well to fit perfectly in the dining area. This entrance become a lively place : while playing piano coexist with cooking or dinning, and the kitchen, thanks to the window benefits now from the light of the living room. Custom made furniture where designed in the same materials in the master bedroom as well as a floor to ceiling cupboard that includes a hidden door that leads to a dressing room open to the master bedroom bathroom. Classical mouldings that were originally on the walls were continued on the cupboard but with a humoristic change, one of the moulding seems to fall! (I need to copy this!!!) The rest of the apartments includes the rooms of the children, two girls that share a common bathroom, simple asymmetric shelves were designed in lacquered mdf as well.


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Friday
Feb152013

The collector's house

Once upon a time in the French city of Dieppe there was a house. The house of a collector, a traveller, an artist. A house of exposed brick, dusty pinks and blues, of quirky collections, imperfection, the souvenirs of life and a dash of fantasy. A house decorated by Elodie Sire of d.mesure. Can't make up my mind if I like the kitchen better than the bathroom. Maybe both?

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Monday
Jan282013

French fantasy over four floors

Oh my! Oh my! A confection of stylish French living. A family home, yes, but "effortlessly" elegant. Amazing architecture helps, as do vintage and brocante cheek to cheek with high end designer pieces, but those floors and the exposed beams! The art! The courtyard and window boxes!The boudoir with a bathing suite and scrolly shower! The children's bunk room! Exclamation mark overdose. I think I died and woke up in heaven on a Campana Brothers Boa sofa. Parisian perfection by Elodie Sire of D.mesure.

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Wednesday
Jan232013

Marianne Evennou

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE French interior designer Marianne Evennou's style. It's typical European modern with all of my favourites like Tolix chairs and Jieldé lights. The warm, earthy colours add more drama to the already dramatic architectural features - and whoa, check out the tile flooring. Gorgeous.   

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