Trocadéro

A collectors’ apartment, and two secret passages.

Localisation

Paris XVIᵉ

YEAR

2022

SURFACE

200 m²

MISSION

Full reconfiguration

Photography

Edoardo de Ruggiero

APPROACH

TRANSFORM

A corner apartment in a Haussmann building, facing the Eiffel Tower. The clients are collectors, of contemporary art, 20th-century furniture and the occasional antique. They wanted to live with their collection, not in a gallery.

The plan was entirely redrawn. Load-bearing walls gave way to steel, hidden in new ceilings, to make room for three bedroom suites, a larger kitchen and an entrance gallery opening onto the reception rooms. In the living room, an oval cornice casts a soft halo of light.

At each end of the gallery, a hidden door leads to the bedrooms: a pivoting bookcase, a bronze mirror.

Each work has its own light. Venetian glass, 1950s chairs and a walnut table share the same rooms. The apartment does not choose between eras.