Region: Paris & Île de France

LA VILLETTE

Formerly the village of La Villette, this neighborhood of new cultural and artistic horizons is located in the north of the 19th arrondissement.

Halfway between the Paris of yesterday and today, La Villette is a district in full renewal. In just a few years, it has become a dynamic and philanthropic hub, combining contemporary architecture, leisure, culture and nature to become one of Paris’s must-see attractions.

Urban and cultural, the Parc de la Villette is one of the largest in the capital. In fine weather, its lawns play host to prestigious open-air events such as the Jazz and Film Festivals, and throughout the year, its museums and leisure facilities are open to the public. We particularly appreciate the Cité de la Musique and the Philharmonie de Paris, with its fabulous, innovative building designed by Jean Nouvel.

MASQUE QUARTIER 4 - LA VILLETTE
MASQUE QUARTIER 5 - LA VILLETTE

PDW 2025 I EX LIBRIS I 10 ANS ARCHIK

Septembre – Décembre 2025

For its fifth participation in Paris Design Week, an unmissable event that celebrates innovation, creativity, and audacity in the world of design each year, 10 artists and designers were invited to revisit the same object: the bookend. Exclusive editions are on display at our Parisian Maison in an exhibition entitled Ex Libris.

A variation on a theme, drawing on different skills and materials to reveal the stylistic richness of a classic library item that has fallen into disuse.

This exhibition pays tribute to the graphic universe that has surrounded books for centuries, as well as to the artists who still strive to renew the genre today, thereby preserving the magic of libraries, in contrast to the all-digital world.

A theme that echoes the release of the sixth edition of the Revue, the agency’s annual publication that expresses the founders’ keen interest in printed matter and beautiful books.

Designers

A selection of 10 artists and designers who have made or will make a significant contribution to the history of ARCHIK :

Anthony Guerrée

Architecture Céramique (Frédéric Bourdiec)

Atelier George (Ève George & Laurent Fichot)

Capucine Guhur

Charlotte Juillard

Corpus Studio (Ronan Le Grand & Konrad Steffensen)

Romie Objett (Alice Damiens)

Sabourin Costes (Zoé Costes & Paola Sabourin)

StudioFoam (Caroline Venet)

Thibault Huguet

Since 2015, ARCHIK has been exploring the links between real estate, architecture, and design: ten years of collaborations that shape a collective vision of the Art of Living.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

From September 4 to December 31, 2025

No appointment necessary, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Maison ARCHIK Paris
14, rue de Montmonrency — Paris 03

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@chaleur.production

Located in a historic and highly sought-after condominium in the 10th arrondissement, this apartment with its industrial origins was in good condition, but its U-shaped floor plan deserved to be rethought. It is built around a 9 m2 terrace, whose charm was just waiting to be revealed.

Objective

Rediscover a plan that’s easier to live in, with an open kitchen, larger shower room, separate WC and, of course, more storage space. Bring the terrace back to life as a real bonus room. More light in the kitchen.

Line of conduct

Preserve the atypical charm of the premises and the remarkable old features. Echo the greenery of the terrace by punctuating the apartment with flat expanses of green.

Assume the “countryside in Paris” ambience, which combines industrial codes (black metal skylights, antique doors, retro-style electric radiators), country-inspired antique furniture such as the farm table and framed kitchen fronts, and the Mediterranean softness embodied by the raw materials of the South of France: terracotta and waxed concrete.

Implementation

A complete renovation that places the kitchen next to the terrace, giving each a place at the heart of the apartment. A previously under-utilized space was upgraded with the creation of a custom-made office, entirely painted a deep green to become a real bonus room.

A parquet floor painted white to unify the whole and let the light circulate: a bold choice, but one that paid off.

An ultra-optimized bathroom in which waxed concrete-covered formwork conceals technical elements and creates hidden niches and storage.

Original plans & project

A haven of peace and light with simple beauty.

L'ARCHITECTE CARMIN

  • Crédits photosBertrand Fompeyrine BCDF
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Transforming a commercial space, using light, space and raw materials in a way that respects the existing building.

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Target

Convert a commercial space on the first floor of a 1980s building into living space, while revealing the qualities of the existing building.

Course of action

The building’s orientation (East-West), its relationship to the exterior (garden and street) and its structure (reinforced concrete) were the three characteristics that guided the design process.

The plan expresses this orientation, allowing the building to “follow the sun” throughout the day, and thus to have a living space that changes atmosphere according to the light. The existing reinforced concrete structure organizes the apartment and creates sequences. It is also the starting point for the materiality. The brutality of concrete contrasts with the warmth of oak and the preciousness of stainless steel. The painted oak floor is deliberately neutral and light, like a backdrop for the furniture. Framing is used to reveal, give depth, set the scene or escape. They create transversal relationships between the reception and service areas.

Achievement

To make the transition from commercial to residential use, the street entrance was modified to create a new relationship with the street, and to distance the building from it by opening onto the garden.

A new street façade was created, and the first floor was turned into a living space by “inhabiting” the windows: in the kitchen in the living area and the dressing room in the bedroom.

On the garden side, a generous bench was created to encourage contemplation.

The building presented a number of technical constraints, notably the presence of water and air drainage systems. Meticulous work had to be carried out on site on the false ceilings to keep the volumes uncluttered and make them a strength of the project.

Original plans & project

An ambience combining raw elegance and luminous warmth.

L'ARCHITECTE Louis EISENLHOR

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  • Crédits photosPhilippe Billard
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ARCENCIELOPHILE I EKHI BUSQUET

April 2025

ARCHIK welcomes “arcencielophile”,
an exhibition under the chromatic arc of Ekhi Busquet.

A retrospective of the designer and artistic director’s collaborations, this exhibition is a veritable immersion in her sunny, polychromatic universe, an ode to the palette of colors that characterizes her, to her love of the prism, a meteorological miracle.

An arcencielophile is someone who, after a rain shower, looks up to the sky
the sky in search of that colorful miracle. A hunter of technicolor emotions, an aesthete of the fleeting, a collector of celestial reflections.
It’s also a state of mind: a way of seeing life in nuances, of believing in joy after the storm, of walking on the side of the sun as an art of living. For there’s something almost militant in the rainbow: a demand for beauty, a reminder that unexpected poetry can emerge from any contrast or disruption.

In her creations, the Basque designer plays with architectural lines, awakened by the bold colors that have become her signature. Her pieces are designed to last, transcending trends and embodying a form of modernity at the crossroads of the functional and the cosmic.

On the occasion of her exhibition at our Parisian Maison ARCHIK, Ekhi Busquet will be showing the fruit of her collaborations with Atelier Paolo, Fabien Barrero Carsenat and Kymo Floor. But above all, she will be previewing her second collaboration with designer Matthieu Vergote: the Seins-Germain collection of blown glasses, the fruit of their characteristic joyful impertinence!

The artist

Designer and art director, Ekhi celebrates a desacralized vision of design and puts her crayons at the service of the “World to Come”. In keeping with the commitments she made early on in her career, she makes a point of signing collaborations with a strong social and environmental impact.

Born in Bayonne, France, and a graduate of the École Boulle in Paris and the Politecnico di Milano, Ekhi began her career with major luxury houses, where she headed the scenography department before founding her own global design studio. For the past 8 years, Ekhi has been applying her talent to 360° creative playgrounds (Art Direction, Digital Content, Retail, Interior Architecture, etc.).

With a solar energy and an emancipated vision, Ekhi multiplies projects, distinguishing itself with polychromic creations for big names (Pierre Hermé, L’Oréal, Dior) as well as for committed and promising young start-ups.

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“For this sunny exhibition, ARCHIK has given me carte blanche to play with my favorite material: joy! Together we’ll celebrate the beautiful vector of change”.

Ekhi BUSQUET

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening on Thursday, April 3, 2025 from 6:30 pm

Exhibition from April 4 to June 2, 2025

By appointment only, Monday to Friday, 10am – 6.30pm

Maison ARCHIK Paris
14 rue de Montmonrency 75003

Designer’s Instagram

@ekhibusquet

Photograph

@lucascerri

TRACES & CONTEMPLATION I ARCHITECTURE CÉRAMIQUE

March 2025

ARCHIK invites you to discover “Traces & Contemplation” by architects Frédéric Bourdiec and Maxence Renard, who explore the fields of ceramics and photography respectively. Through this four-handed exhibition, Frédéric and Maxence question our view of housing and urban spaces.

Above all, his pieces speak for themselves. Each piece is part of a series named Les Lilas, Vue sur Mer, Canon à Lumière, and evokes particular eras, places or construction techniques. The aim is clear: to make the object tell its own story, even before it is explained.

His lamps and tables are not just functional: they become sculptural, capable of transforming a space. If they illuminate, they also illuminate the idea of the object as a trace of architecture and collective memory.

Frédéric explores the constraints of the material and the technical possibilities offered by ceramics. Each filling becomes an experiment in finesse, weight, assembly methods and texture. Inspiration from Pierre and Vera Szekely and André Bloc resonates in his volumes and surfaces.

The aridity of large modern cities, the brutality of functionalist buildings from the 50s and 70s and the mass layouts of large housing estates permeate his work. Each of his creations is both a tribute to and an interrogation of social housing.

The artists

Architects by training and graduates of ENSA Marseille, Frédéric Bourdiec and Maxence Renard explore, each in their own way, the links between architecture, art and perception.

Frédéric Bourdiec, known as Architecture Céramique, transposes his architectural vision into ceramic sculptures inspired by the Brutalist and Functionalist buildings of the 50s and 70s. Crafted with precision and sensitivity, his works question notions of scale, texture and light, while telling an intimate, urban story.

Photographer Maxence Renard focuses on revealing the subtle interplay between shapes, colors and perspectives. In his work, whether architectural or fashion photography, he explores materials and contrasts, capturing light to offer a new perception of the spaces he immortalizes.

Their joint work, nourished by their training as architects, questions the spaces that surround us and reveals the hidden beauty of materials, shapes and volumes.

This exhibition is an invitation to observe the resonance between matter, light and memory.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 7pm

Exhibition from January 30, 2025 to April 4, 2025

Open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6.30 pm, by appointment only

Maison ARCHIK Marseille

Designer’s Instagram

@architectureceramique
@maxence.renard

Photograph

@juliefleutot

TOTEM I HEJU STUDIO

January 2025

To celebrate the start of an intense new year, ARCHIK invites you to discover “Totem”, an exhibition featuring the architectural duo HEJU Studio and their unique vision of timeless, sustainable design.

“Totem” is a retrospective of HEJU Studio’s collaborations with French brands and galleries sharing the same values of timelessness and sustainability: Ressource, Carocim, Nobodinoz, La Lune and Virginie Lesage. Through a selection of furniture collections, materials and artworks, this exhibition celebrates a singular aesthetic where rounded reliefs, graphic forms and primitive architectural vocabulary intertwine to create sensitive, poetic objects.

Sculptural furniture, graphic cement tiles, subtle hues and objets d’art: each piece on display embodies a dialogue between minimalism and expressive architectural forms. The totemic figure, omnipresent in their work, becomes here the common thread of a universe where craft, material and light meet.

The artists

Hélène Pinard and Julien Schwartzmann, architects and founders of Heju Studio, met at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg, where they graduated top of their class. Together, they have created a unique universe inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics.

Their sensitive, spontaneous approach optimizes spaces, challenges codes and brings emotion and poetry to everyday life. They attach great importance to materials, colors and textures, creating atmospheres that appeal to all the senses.

Fervent advocates of the continuity between art, design and architecture, they conceive projects that merge disciplines and inspirations. Each project is unique, reflecting a luminous, calm simplicity enriched by a distinctive personality.

An invitation to plunge into the world of HEJU Studio, where architecture dialogues with design in a quest for balance and poetry.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 7pm

Exhibition from January 16, 2025 to March 16, 2025

Open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6.30 pm, by appointment only

Maison ARCHIK Paris

Designer’s Instagram

@hejustudio

In a 1930 building designed by architects Jean Ginsberg and François Heep, this apartment needed to be optimized. Reinterpreted by architect Baptiste Legué, the space now boasts a modernist cachet.

Objective

Restore the radiance of a 1930s apartment by bringing in light and circulation.

Line of conduct

Creating a soft, luminous atmosphere was the common thread running through this renovation. Inviting light into every room to highlight mineral materials such as terrazzo and waxed concrete.

Implementation

The transformation of the apartment was radical: all partitions were removed, leaving only the structural elements in place. The floors underwent a complete overhaul to accommodate a mix of terrazzo and carpet. A set of furniture was carefully custom-designed and discreetly integrated into the existing environment. This approach re-established simple volumes and perfectly harmonized the apartment’s overall aesthetic.

Partner brands:

Travertine coffee table: Talka
Cream-colored bouclé armchair: Lacroix

A modernist setting that plays on contrasts.

L'ARCHITECTE DIPTYQUE

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A complete renovation carried out by ARCHIK and the architect Baptiste Legué (ABL) in a house from the beginning of the century, near Paris.

Target

To give back to this doll’s house where small volumes and numerous rooms follow one another, a more contemporary functionality by decompartmentalizing the spaces and revitalizing their layout.

Course of action

Expand the house to offer three distinct spaces: living area, master suite and children’s area, all on two levels, and focus on the outdoors with an extension of the living area facing the garden, opening onto a shaded terrace.

Achievement

Natural materials were used as the main thread of the renovation: Okoumé wood for the custom-made woodwork, natural and pink travertine in the bathroom and kitchen. The pink and beige tones of the whole project create an enveloping and soft atmosphere.

On the first floor, the staircase is moved and becomes an integrated element that creates a bench for the dining room. The open kitchen with island is the nerve center of this first level and is adorned with pink travertine. The day and night areas have been separated and Okoumé wood panels, some of which serve as doors and others as storage, mark this distinction. The master suite has a bathroom entirely made of travertine with a custom-made double sink.

Upstairs, two attic bedrooms each offer built-in storage and an office area. The relocated hopper allows the creation of a pleasant shower room with window, as well as an independent toilet. Two rooms in total look terracotta.

A family cocoon, warm and bucolic, turned towards the outside.

L'ARCHITECTE LA MAISON ROSE

  • Crédits photosAgathe Tissier
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