A month in the past, Margot profiled an uncommonly trendy starter condominium in Paris (see The Final First House: A Brother and Sister’s Shared Quarters). The redone flat on a quiet cul-de-sac within the eleventh arrondissement is the work of designer Marianne Evennou, who once more wielded her trademark method with shade and use of inside home windows for bringing within the Paris gentle.
Right now we’re taking a more in-depth take a look at the environment friendly shades-of-blue kitchen, with parts of the late-Nineteenth-century constructing nonetheless intact.
Images by Gregory Timsit, courtesy of Marianne Evennou.
Above: The 90-square-meter (968-square toes) condominium is on the bottom ground. The primary entrance (not fairly seen on the wall reverse the partition) opens right into a small hallway and the kitchen and dwelling space past. The palette all through is blue on blue, together with the ground, which is concrete with a wax end.
Above: The petite kitchen is all new with just a few preserved parts (the rough-hewn beams, for instance). The slender fridge is by Smeg, and the vary hood is cleverly hidden behind a panel of dappled glass.Above: Evennou usually provides inside home windows in lieu of stable partitions to attach areas and carry via pure gentle. This one is steel-framed and provides a view, whereas washing dishes, via the partition and the entrance door to the courtyard. (For extra on this design trick, see Borrowed Gentle: The Attraction of Inside Glass Doorways and Home windows, Shaker Version.)Above: The cupboards are customized, painted in Cumulus Lourd from Ressource Paints (see A Storied French Firm Crosses the Atlantic), and the counters are Zimbabwean black granite. Evennou made the eating desk herself with a plank from Atmosphère d’Ailleurs atop readymade metal desk legs. Along with the cool blue palette, there’s a cloth combine: shiny counters, an assemblage of picket eating chairs and perches, natural-fiber pendants and baskets, and a woven rug.Above: A trio of Solo Pendant Lights by Atelier Vime illuminate the workspace. The bespoke cabinets, together with a built-in plate rack, add to the small kitchen’s effectivity.
For extra petite kitchens we love within the Metropolis of Gentle, see:
