France

Lina Ghotmeh wraps Hermès leather workshop in “galloping arches”

May 16, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France, for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France’s highest environmental labelling. The wood-framed Maroquinerie de Louviers workshop, located in Hermès’ hub in Normandy, was built from over 500,000 bricks produced by local brick-makers located 70 kilometres from the site.

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Anne Holtrop organises Parisian jewellery boutique around wavy acrylic wall

May 11, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has used rippled sheets of acrylic to create a water-like partition inside this Parisian boutique by jewellery designer Charlotte Chesnais. The store is set along Boulevard Saint Germain and is the second retail location that Anne Holtrop has devised for the brand. Like the inaugural branch – which features a striking

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Green tiles line Maison Jericho extension in Marseille

May 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

French studio Olivia Fauvelle Architecture has used glazed tiles and concrete lintels to transform the outbuilding and courtyard of a house in the south of France. The outbuilding has been refurbished and extended to physically connect it to Maison Jericho, the 20th-century stone house to which it belongs in Marseille. Olivia Fauvelle Architecture’s aim was

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Rodolphe Parente respectfully rethinks a classic Haussmannian apartment in Paris

May 9, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

French interior designer Rodolphe Parente has completed a contemporary overhaul of a 19th-century Parisian apartment, reflecting both the building’s heritage and the “radical” art collection of its owner. Originally built during Haussmann’s major reconstruction of Paris, the 150-square-metre flat is located in the Canal Saint-Martin neighbourhood in northeastern Paris. As part of the renovation, Parente

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Halleroed mixes French and Japandi influences inside L/Uniform’s Paris boutique

April 30, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

In the arty Paris district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Stockholm design studio Halleroed has designed a new boutique for French bag and luggage brand L/Uniform. Taking cues from the brand’s simple, rational approach to design, Halleroed design lead Ruxandra Halleröd created a series of backdrops that allow the products to “pop out in a beautiful way”. The boutique

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Moussafir Architectes retrofits 1970s Paris office with movable PVC curtains

March 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Movable curtains of translucent PVC mesh cover the facade of this block of offices and flats in Paris, which has been converted from a 1970s concrete structure by local practice Moussafir Architectes. The practice collaborated with Amsterdam-based design studio Inside Outside on the 10-metre-high curtain facade, introduced to complement the original building’s concrete structure, which

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Seven Parisian brutalist buildings that illustrate the movement’s “level of experimentation”

March 15, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Barlett School of Architecture professor Robin Wilson has shared with Dezeen a selection of eclectic brutalist buildings in Paris that are featured in his latest book, Brutalist Paris. Published by Blue Crow Media, the Brutalist Paris book is made up of seven essays detailing over 150 buildings completed in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

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Traditional Hong Kong diners inform interior of Bao Express in Paris

February 14, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Atelieramo has completed a retro interior for a Chinese restaurant in Paris, featuring celadon-green walls and curvaceous wooden booths modelled on those found in Hong Kong diners from the 1970s. Architect Tala Gharagozlou and designer Virginie de Graveron oversaw the interior concept for Bao Express, a restaurant near Bastille in the 11th arrondissement that

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Citrons et Huîtres oyster bar creates impression of “diving into an aquarium”

February 3, 2023 Anna Marks 0

French interior designer Marion Mailaender has completed a seafood bar in Paris named Citrons et Huîtres, which features oyster-shaped door handles and a stainless steel counter informed by fishmongers. Mailaender, who specialises in creating spaces “with a great sense of humour”, designed the bar to resemble an elevated market stall, where guests can dine inside

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Golem creates “pleasure-driven” pink interior for Superzoom gallery

February 2, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Bubblegum-pink walls, floors and furniture create unconventional spaces for displaying art at this gallery in Paris designed by local studio Golem. Headed by architect and artist Ariel Claudet, the practice was invited to design the interior for the Superzoom art gallery, which is located in the historic Le Marais district. The gallery comprises three spaces

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