Fabrice Juan, the designer of this elegantly vibrant Paris apartment or condo, has a maxim that an interior “should work even without furnishings.” Concur or disagree, it’s a fascinating declaration from Juan, who, prior to ending up being a renowned designer and designer, apprenticed as a carpenter. Prior to starting his present profession, he ‘d currently developed a large range of remarkable couches and armchairs, tables and cabinets, lights and devices. Still, it is difficult to disagree with the concept that a space must have the ability to base on its own. Over the last few years, Juan has actually refurbished and provided an excellent variety of magnificent houses, mainly in the swank Paris areas around the Bois de Boulogne and in Neuilly-sur-Seine where he has actually lived.
” The French art de vivre deserves maintaining and promoting,” states the designer. “The method workmanship and a sense of design are integrated here is something rather unique that is extremely near to me personally.” Therefore Juan didn’t think twice for long when asked if he might handle this Paris apartment or condo near the Champs-Ãlysées
With a big entryway hall and 7 spaces topped 3,000 square feet, the apartment or condo radiates an unique Parisian bourgeois style. However after years of peaceful splendour, it required some assistance being ushered into the 21st century. “From the outset, the customers had just one desire,” Juan remembers, “which was to have the cooking area centrally situated. They provided me unlimited freedom to make all other choices. I felt that they wished to be shocked by the outcome– a lot of conversations would have simply been a trouble to them.”
The very first thing Juan did was to reorganize the layout by moving the cooking area from the back to the center of the apartment or condo, per the customers’ dreams, in addition to developing brand-new cabinets and an island. What provides it an unique twist, nevertheless, is the prolonged customized banquette from Juan’s own Saint-Germain collection. Completing a corner, it absolutely announces that this cooking area is not simply a cooking area– it’s likewise an area for relaxing. That table in front of the couch serves not simply as a table however likewise as a counter for groceries and a bar table of sorts.
Juan opened the apartment or condo’s L-shaped entryway with terracotta-red walls. It’s now virtually a space in its own right. The flooring is a magnificent and grand mosaic of oak parquet and inlays of limestone and travertine influenced by the workmanship discovered in France’s stylish houses. Home furnishings in the other spaces expose the breadth of motivations behind Juan’s work. They vary from Art Deco, with its vibrant lines and rounded corners, to the wacky, large, and boldly vibrant pop styles of the 1970s and ’80s.
For the walls, the designer created something unique. To offer order and structure to those sufficient locations that were as soon as more than likely embellished with classical wallpaper, he picked subtle colors in light tones of brown and ocher, and included grosgrain ribbon lines. In the big bed room, they form rhombuses that remember the relaxing quality of old wall panels. In the staying spaces these ribbon patterns are still direct, however more meaningful, with severe angles, diagonals, triangles, and diamond shapes.