Paris · Full renovation · Apartment for art collectors
Vaugirard: light, quiet and a made-to-measure home
In the heart of the 15th arrondissement, PAREIL transforms a turn-of-the-century apartment into a serene sequence of connected rooms. The intervention re-structures the core, restores cross-ventilation and brings daylight back to the center of the flat—framing a domestic landscape for a contemporary art collection.
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The starting point was a narrow, inefficient plan: dark rooms and a fragmented circulation. The key move happens at the core—services and routes are reorganized and opaque partitions are replaced by translucent ones (the glazed kitchen screen and glass blocks), which channel light toward the interior areas.
Proportions in the living-dining room and bedrooms remain familiar, yet the project adds a primary suite in continuity with an existing room, plus a laundry and generous storage. The home precisely supports the daily life of a family of four while preserving moments of pause and contemplation—attuned to the owners’ artistic vocation.
Materials are sober: wood, metal and stone—honest, tactile finishes—crafted with near-artisan precision. Joinery details, transitions between textures and calibrated light modulation build an atmosphere that feels distinctive yet calm.
This project does not chase spectacle but exactness: clarifying paths, opening transparencies, organizing storage and allowing filtered light to travel through the home. The result is domestic architecture that feels inevitable: essential, precise and attentive to what already exists.
