Region: Paris & Île de France

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

architectes@archik.fr
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September 2024

For Paris Design Week 2024, ARCHIK is teaming up with CORPUS STUDIO for an immersive experience at the heart of design.

For this 4th edition of PDW, ARCHIK presents the work of Ronan and Konrad, architects and designers, founders of CORPUS STUDIO.
A selection of pieces from their bb collection, featuring a range of metals with different finishes, all hand-crafted in the foundry. Exclusively, new custom-designed pieces will be presented in a hushed setting, creating an immersive, cottony scenography.

bb is for baby, the first love, for Brigitte Bardot, voluptuous and suave, for Babybel© and its ingenious red wax shell that divides into several quarters.

A collection imagined through an empirical game of assembling shapes, all derived from one and the same element: a simple wheel – one of the most elementary shapes – poetically divided, repeated and assembled to ultimately create a multitude of functional objects.

CORPUS STUDIO

Founded by Ronan Le Grand and Konrad Steffensen, CORPUS STUDIO stands out for its transdisciplinary vision, fusing architecture, decorative arts, art and furniture. The duo create unique spaces and atmospheres by optimizing the specificities of each location. Their analytical and collaborative approach, supported by a network of experts, enables them to develop solutions that are both rational and sensitive. The result: poetic spaces that play with volumes, light and textures to offer an aesthetic and functional experience, where every detail contributes to a harmonious and comfortable atmosphere.

 

“From these objects emerges a sculptural and functional dimension, oscillating between angle and roundness, rigor and humor, minimalism and maximalism.”

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Paris Design Week from September 5 to 14, 2024

Opening Saturday September 7 from 7pm

Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm

at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Designers’ Instagram

@corpus.studio

Photo credits

@firminbiville I @mathildehiley

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.

A modernist setting that plays on contrasts.

L'ARCHITECTE DIPTYQUE

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QUARTIERS D’ÉTÉ | PIGALLE MATIGNON & MATCHI ART

July 2024

This summer, ARCHIK is delighted to invite Pigalle Matignon, Matchi Art and Red Edition to furnish its Parisian home. Discover an inspiring selection of art and design pieces.

Immerse yourself in a captivating artistic journey through the Parisian Maison ARCHIK, where furniture by Red Edition meets design pieces by Pigalle Matignon and artworks by Matchi Art. An opportunity to discover elegant furniture, objects and works of art that embody French elegance, creativity and savoir-faire.

An immersive exhibition that transports you into a summery universe, where each carefully selected piece evokes the softness and light of Parisian summer days.

THE ARTISTS

Red Edition gives pride of place to materials, deep colors, architectural lines and the craftsmanship of wood and lacquer. Through a combination of eras, each collection honors an ancestral material and technique. The brand reinvents vintage furniture with a contemporary twist, creating elegant, timeless pieces that celebrate French craftsmanship.

Pigalle Matignon, a collectible design gallery, highlights the history of the pieces and their creators. Offering accessible small-scale furniture created by French artist-designers, the gallery favors responsible work and exclusive, signed and numbered limited editions. Each piece, developed exclusively for Pigalle Matignon, is handcrafted and treated as an objet d’art. Founded by Laure Lefèvre Baulme, the gallery aims to reintroduce humanity and history into our interiors with rare and meaningful pieces.

Matchi Art’s mission is to make the purchase of art accessible to all, integrating art into everyday life. This new-style art gallery offers a rigorous selection of original works by emerging and established artists. Matchi Art is distinguished by its warm, atypical space, where contemporary works cohabit harmoniously with carefully selected vintage furniture.

A celebration of design and contemporary art, highlighting promising talents on the French scene.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening on Thursday, July 4 from 6 pm

No appointment necessary, daily from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Designers’ Instagram

@pigallematignon 

@matchi.art_

@rededition

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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Sous une hauteur de plus de 5 mètres, cette pièce déploie ses volumes tout en courbes. Son parquet en hêtre, ses colonnes, sa bibliothèque sur mesure en pitchpin et sa mezzanine reprenant les codes d’une coque de bateau et donnent le la de cette belle partition architecturale. Baignée de lumière grâce à sa grande ouverture en forme de voile, elle ouvre sur le jardin intimiste et confortable, à la façon d’un jardin secret au calme absolu qui ne demande qu’à être investi. En retrait de l’espace de vie, s’aperçoit la vaste cuisine / salle à manger et un espace buanderie éclairés par la lumière du sol en verre du premier niveau.

Enfin, aux deux niveaux supérieurs se trouvent les espaces nuits avec cinq belles chambres dont une parentale, ponctuées par endroits de courbes et dont certaines se parent d’incrustations vitrées allégoriques comme signature de cette maison-bateau. Elles se partagent deux salles de bain et une salle d’eau.

Une œuvre architecturale hors norme à proximité de la vie parisienne.

Jacques-Émile Lecaron

Né à Paris en 1939, Jacques‑Émile Lecaron est un architecte français formé à l’École spéciale d’architecture, puis à Harvard, où il obtient un master en urbanisme. Influencé par des figures comme Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller ou Bruce Goff, il développe une approche originale mêlant architecture, poésie et imagination.

Installé à Clamart depuis les années 1970, il y conçoit une série de maisons singulières – telles que la Maison d’acier, l’Arche de Noé ou la Maison de la Belle au bois dormant – dont les formes colorées et narratives traduisent les rêves et les personnalités de leurs habitants. Il réalise aussi des aménagements urbains et œuvres publiques, en lien étroit avec leur environnement.

Lecaron se distingue par une architecture expressive, presque onirique, qui refuse les normes pour mieux raconter des histoires. À travers ses créations, il propose une autre manière d’habiter : plus libre, plus intime, et profondément humaine.

LE GESTE EN LUMIÈRE I ENAMOURA

February – April 2024

Une scénographie immersive pour mettre en avant six artisanats : terres mêlées, estampées, tournées, chamottées, pièces de vannerie et porcelaines se dévoilent avec leurs étapes, leurs outils, leurs matériaux.

How do you work with clay so that it becomes an object of use? How do you make a wall lamp, a hanging lamp or a floor lamp? This is what ENAMOURA and ARCHIK are showing us. This new exhibition in ARCHIK’s Parisian showroom highlights the age-old skills and know-how that give life to the iconic “Lisette” model, handcrafted in Provence.

ENAMOURA

Enamoura, inspired by “Enamourado”, Provençal for lover, takes shape as a project embodying the spirit of southern vacations. After several years spent in Grenoble, Magali Avignon returns to her native land, in the heart of the Vaucluse. She shares her love of the land through a variety of projects, always with the same goal in mind: to revive the Provençal Art de Vivre.

Magali imagines her own collections of timeless lighting fixtures handmade in Provence, inspired by her childhood memories and objects found at local flea markets.

ARCHIK and ENAMOURA share a common desire to shine the spotlight on fine crafts through this exhibition, exploring materials and creativity.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Opening on Thursday, February 8 from 7pm

No appointment necessary, daily from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Designers’ Instagram

@enamoura_

A blank page to write in this apartment on the rue des Martyrs, which has been asleep for years. A playground of 112 m2  to invest fully.

Target

Adapting an apartment to today’s uses and functions, thanks to the decompartmentalization of the kitchen and the creation of a parental bedroom with dressing room and large shower room.

Course of action

A strong intervention on the entrance space and the kitchen, completely remodeled, and the creation of a contrast of this space with the rest of the apartment. Thought as a small stage, everything in the kitchen is there to highlight materials such as pink Quartzite opus, travertine, and dark wood.

Materials of unusual use, such as the Incertum opus in Pink Quartzite in the kitchen floor and the entrance hall, create a sense of surprise and are enhanced by custom-made arrangements in blackened oak and dark paint.

Achievement

The work on the custom-made layout elements has allowed the creation of functional spaces, as well as a simple and uncluttered reading of the spaces. It also allows to highlight elements such as a central island in travertine or furniture.

The adult bathroom, with its flowing shower and transparent dressing room, reveals a warm space bathed in light from the south.

Clean lines and uncompromising style, with bold but always accurate choices.

L'ARCHITECTE NAVARIN

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PARIS DESIGN WEEK

7 – 16 September 2023

For the 3rd year running, ARCHIK is supporting French design and creativity by partnering Paris Design Week. In September, Sabourin Costes will have carte blanche to create an exclusive scenography to showcase and unveil our new edition, co-created with the design duo.

Paris Design Week has become a not-to-be-missed highlight, giving a voice and visibility to emerging and established artists at our Parisian home in the heart of the Marais district, 14 rue de Montmorency.

This year, with the support of Le French Design by VIA, we are launching our 8th edition, co-created with the design duo Sabourin Costes. Paola Sabourin and Zoé Costes have been given carte blanche to imagine an exclusive scenography and unveil our edition during #PDW23. It will be revealed at the heart of a scenography composed of pieces created by the designers for their first solo show, like a dialogue between the straight line and the organic curve.

A preview launch for Sabourin Costes and ARCHIK.

SABOURIN COSTES

Sabourin Costes is a design studio founded by Zoé Costes and Paola Sabourin.

From their Paris studio, they compose and shape surprises. By combining a meticulous exploration of materials and how they are used with formal and functional research, they create singular objects that catch the eye and celebrate the everyday.

Their preferred materials are simple yet refined: lacquered wood, polished stainless steel or transparent resin. They play with reflection and distortion to create unexpected, contemplative moments.

ARCHIK X Sabourin Costes is the result of a shared desire to explore and give birth to a unique creation, a retranscription of two distinct worlds that meet and complement each other.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates

Paris Design Week from 7th to 16th September 2023

No appointment necessary every day between 9.30 am and 6.30 pm at Maison ARCHIK Paris

Instagram des designers

@sabourincostes