Ranelagh

RESIDENTIAL · Paris 16th, Ranelagh · 2026 · 230 m² · Full renovation of an apartment

The Ranelagh apartment had stood empty for several years when the studio stepped in. Two hundred and thirty square metres on the third floor of a fine Haussmann building in cut stone, between the Trocadéro and the Bois de Boulogne, just waiting to be turned inside out. And so they were. The kitchen took the place of the main bedroom, the living and dining rooms moved to the street side, the bedrooms to the back, where it is quiet.

The tone is set in the entrance, with stained glass in shades of green and ochre, designed for the place.
From there, every passage runs beneath an oak arch, tall, narrow, with cut corners. It comes back from room to room, like a refrain. The oak is stained gold, the studio's signature shade. It lights up against aged mirrors and a Sarrancolin marble, the one used at the Palace of Versailles.

Hardly any mouldings were left. The studio cast the fragments that had survived and reproduced them throughout the apartment. The chevron parquet was restored where its condition allowed, and remade identically elsewhere. Today it is hard to tell what is original.
In the kitchen, the Jack table has a top of beige Forbo linoleum that could easily pass for leather. Almost all the furniture comes from the studio: the Loulou coffee table and Le Soufflé sofa in the living room, the Yves bedside table in the bedroom, and La Corbeille wall lights in the bathrooms.