A New Book Spotlights Compact Paris Quarters Designed by Marianne Evennou

Inside designer Marianne Evennou, our French doyenne of colour, composition, and small-space residing, has simply revealed her first e book.

Un Intérieur à Soi (free translation: “A Place of One’s Personal”) is a compendium of her signature strikes—inside home windows, uncovered beams, duo-toned partitions, bonbon box-sized kitchens, and black Bakelite gentle switches—that dazzle us again and again.

Marianne could have go-to design methods however she applies them with a freshness and pleasure each time. At this time, we’re spotlighting a favourite Paris condo for a consumer named Sabine, an artist and businesswoman in her forties who Marianne describes as having “une idée à la minute.” At every of their preliminary conferences, Sabine arrived with macarons from Ladurée and their “gentle however not cutesy colours: pale pink, almond inexperienced, and pastel blue” turned the place to begin for the makeover:  “luxurious and carefree,” it’s additionally a pocket condo that, as Marianne places it, “has all the large stuff.” Be part of us for a tour.

Images by Grégory Timsit, courtesy of Éditions de La Martinière.

The entry, proven right here, has a wainscot patterned with Antoinette Poisson Buisson de Roses wallpaper and a bleached parquet flooring with radiant warmth. Marianne places tight quarters to work: the pink tiled flooring defines the kitchen, and the bed room is on the opposite aspect of the glazed wall. Scroll to the tip for the up to date flooring plan.