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Traditional design techniques are “alive and well” in Le Salon de Septembre exhibition

November 19, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Old and new blurred together in this exhibition at Paris’ GSL Gallery, which celebrated contemporary creatives who observe design traditions of the past. Le Salon de Septembre was the inaugural exhibition to be held at GSL Gallery, a factory-turned-arts space in Paris’ Patin neighbourhood run by creative collective The Guild of Saint Luke. Guided by

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Beata Heuman designs colour-drenched Hôtel de la Boétie in Paris

October 13, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Saturated greens and blues contrast pale pink sheets and playful flower details at Hôtel de la Boétie in Paris, which Swedish designer Beata Heuman created to be “a bit like a stage set”. Set in a 19th-century building, the 40-room hotel in Paris’ 8th arrondissement was designed with Heuman’s signature colourful interior style. While it

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Christ & Gantenbein wraps Paris social housing in “rather unexpected” steel facade

September 28, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has created a 124-metre-long block of social housing in Paris that is clad in steel. Designed in collaboration with Margot-Duclot Architectes Associes, the linear building is in the city’s 15th arrondissement and contains 104 apartments split across five floors. It sits above a subway maintenance workshop and is constructed from a concrete frame

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Frederik Molenschot presents debut solo sculpture show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

September 10, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Sculptures crafted from recycled BMW airbags and oak railway sleepers feature in artist Frederik Molenschot’s Atlas 2000 exhibition, which is on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. Marking the Dutch artist’s first solo exhibition, Atlas 2000 features hand-sculpted works that are directly influenced by natural landscapes, Molenschot said. The show’s title refers to the

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Uchronia conceives Haussmann-era Paris apartment as “chromatic jewellery box”

September 1, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Multifaceted furniture pieces crafted to mirror the appearance of precious stones feature in this opulent Parisian apartment, which was renovated by local studio Uchronia for a pair of jewellery designers. Located on Paris’s Avenue Montaigne, the one-storey apartment is housed within a building designed as part of Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s famed reconstruction of the French capital

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Ramy Fischler blends contemporary and historic for Moët Hennessy’s first cocktail bar

August 24, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Belgian designer Ramy Fischler has collaborated with Moët Hennessy and cocktail creator Franck Audoux to create the Cravan cocktail bar in the heart of Paris’ Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Named Cravan, the bar for luxury drinks group Moët Hennessy was a collaboration between architect Fischler and restaurateur, author, historian and cocktail aficionado Audoux. “The objective of the design was

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Wine-red kitchen forms centrepiece of Paris apartment by Hauvette & Madani

July 10, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Interior design studio Hauvette & Madani has made a sumptuous wine-red kitchen the focus of this otherwise neutral apartment in Paris. The Republique apartment is set within a typical Haussmann-era building in the French capital’s 11th arrondissement and belongs to a family with two children. From the outset of the renovation, the clients called for

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Paris reinstates skyscraper ban following Tour Triangle backlash

June 6, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Paris has reimposed a height limit for new buildings in the city, following the controversial construction of Tour Triangle tower designed by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron. The height limit, announced yesterday, will limit new buildings in the French capital to a height of 37 metres or 12 storeys. It reinstates the same Parisian

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Six renovated Parisian apartments in historical Haussmann-era buildings

June 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Period details are mixed with contemporary interventions inside these renovated apartments in Paris, built in the mid-19th century during Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s reconstruction of the French capital. In his role as the prefect of the Seine département under Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann was responsible for creating the network of boulevards that still define the city’s urban landscape

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Largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective opens at Centre Pompidou in Paris

May 18, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

An exhibition dedicated to the work of British architect Norman Foster has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, showcasing drawings and original models produced by the architect over the last six decades. The exhibition, which according to the Norman Foster Foundation is the largest-ever retrospective display of Foster’s work, features around 130 of the architect’s

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