A Stylish One Bedroom Apartment Makeover in Paris By Two Young Architects

Stephen O’Sullivan felt prepared for a greater bathtub. The twin Irish-French citizen had been residing in his condo in Paris’s ninth for nearly 20 years when he gave architect Suleïma Ben Achour a shout. The daughter of an previous good friend of his, Suleïma, a 2016 graduate of the École Nationale d’Structure de Paris la Villette, was working on the time for a Paris design agency. She and her favourite collaborator from structure faculty, Antoine Lallement, met up with Stephen, and rapidly the dialogue advanced from showers and sinks into a complete rethink of the flat: a translator and author, Stephen was within the strategy of organising his personal firm out of the condo and realized that the time was proper for “a makeover that’s going to be with me for the remainder of my life.”

The architects utilized a rigorous evaluation of the 55 sq. meters (lower than 600 sq. ft), and urged flipping the areas of the toilet and kitchen to open up the latter to the residing area and provides every a recent guise. As a rescue measure, they advisable built-in storage (scroll to the tip for a glimpse of the mess that was). And, as a of completion, they prescribed joie-de-vivre: checks and plaids for each room, a wink to each the 18th-century constructing’s rustic historical past and Stephen’s Irish origins. Stephen himself took the theme to the following stage insisting that his complete bed room be inexperienced.

“There isn’t any good mission with no good shopper, and Stephen was essentially the most open-minded shopper ever,” says Suleïma, who remembers visiting the condo along with her household as slightly woman. The work enabled the moonlighting younger architects to surrender their day jobs and launch their agency, Studio Classico (@Studio_Classico, web site in progress). Be a part of us for a have a look at their first fee.

Pictures by Marvin Leuvrey and Charlotte Robin, courtesy of Studio Classico.

The condo is about in a former teaching inn, a part of France’s pre-railroad postal system, and retains its authentic herringbone oak flooring seen right here within the small entrance room, which Stephen makes use of as his workplace, den, library, and visitor room. Observe the reflective white surfaces and newly launched glass partition between the rooms: for the architects “luminosity was a high precedence.”