The 60sqm apartment is located in the heart of Paris. It is nested in a typical 18th century building with its Paris stone facade and vert-de gris centuries-old windows. Kierszbaum Intérieurs was given total freedom to imagine and create an interior that would echo Paris rich historic influences as well as celebrate the city’s wonderful ability to constantly reinvent itself.
The interior is to be reminiscent of the Tuscanian palazzi understated opulence reinterpreted à la Française. Each room is highly decorative and unique with its own story to tell and its mix of cultural and historical references. Frescos would infuse the space with lyricism and colors and lead the way to creative contemplation.
The bedroom:
The inspiration was drawn from Gertrude Greene, a pioneer artist in the American abstract mouvement in the early 1930s. One of her painting was the starting point for the first mural of the apartment and led me to select a color palette evolving around warm earth tones.
Color-blocking allowed us to deconstruct the space, frame the mural with kakis and pink and play with different heights as to optically enhance openings to the living room and the adjacent bathroom.
The Bathroom:
The bathroom was treated as a serene monochromatic space with a focus on natural materials such as zelliges and granito whose beauty comes from asperity and imperfections.
The Kitchen:
The kitchen is very modern and minimalist, with touches of brass that brighten up the dark kaki background. The backsplash is composed of marble tiles with brass inserts. A pink and black marble trompe-l’oeil wallpaper from Studio Beauregard can be seen across the room in the washing room.
The Living room:
This space has been treated as a doubled sided theater, a vice versa decor which would, from one perspective, open to the outside views, the light and an oversized custom-made gold blown-glass chandelier and from another perpective, reveal a handmade mural background, creating an enchanted forest of greens and blues. The purple hue was applied on part of the ceiling as to emphasize the intended purpose to create a decor within the decor and, as always, to expand our views towards fantasy and imagination.
