Region: Paris & Île de France

Stéphanie BERTINA MINEL

Architect HMONP

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Stéphanie Bertina Minel is a passionate and sparkling architect who studied at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles. After two years of experience in renowned Parisian agencies, Stéphanie started her own agency in 2008.

Both an architectural and interior design firm, she specializes in assisting individuals with their small and large-scale renovation projects. Since 2018 she has been involved in the association Architectes&Particuliers, which she is now president.

Attentive, Stephanie is interested in a wide variety of projects offering a custom approach while remaining sensitive to the place’s context and history. In all of her practice, she advocates for creative architecture and a realistic approach, without being “art for art’s sake”. She creates optimized and elegant spaces that do not follow trends, but enhance the quality of life of its occupants.

With ARCHIK, she shares the same notion of customized support, the key to obtaining well thought-out and durable spaces. And it is committed to quality architecture, from the sketch to the delivery of each project.

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Under the roofs of Montmartre, a 63 m2 flat with eleven windows finally reveals its full potential to become an open, raw yet intimate and warm living space.

Target

To arrange each space in the flat in such a way that it can always benefit from the light coming in through the eleven windows. The challenge was also to make the corridors disappear.

Course of action

The choice of framing, transparency and perspective were essential to reveal each space. Finally, in keeping with the architecture of the place, the exposed beams and the volume of the main room were preserved.

Raw materials such as Vals stone, steel, stainless steel, glass, and a raw oak parquet floor have been used to magnify the project without ever stifling it.

Mise en oeuvre

Les meubles d’agencement, dessinés sur-mesure, viennent créer les espaces autour d’un mur porteur central : aucune cloison n’a été ajoutée dans l’appartement.

Chaque espace est pensé en lien avec le suivant par une série de meubles. Nous passons du salon à la chambre au travers d’une bibliothèque aux montants en acier et vitrée, vers la salle de bain, en traversant un des meubles.

Enfin, un soubassement ceinture la pièce principale  et permet de cacher subtilement le chauffage tout en créant une assise conviviale et en dissimulant du rangement.

A refined optimisation.

L'ARCHITECTE Baptiste LEGUÉ

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Louis EISENLHOR

Architect HMONP

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Louis’ vocation for architecture was born very early, cradled in a Marseilles family where sensitivity to beauty is a story of transmission. After graduating in 2012 from the National School of Architecture in Marseille, Louis began his career in Paris with François Brugel Architectes Associés, an agency that deals with housing, rehabilitation and extensions. He thus learned to work in and with the existing, playing with it and with pure creation.

His approach to architecture is identity and his approach sincere, which is felt in the aesthetics of his work.  His reflection on the projects goes far beyond the respect of a specification: he immerses himself in the place, “captures its sensitivity because it is that which will make the project, in addition to the desires and needs of his clients. Here, we create with the concern of revealing the qualities of a place, of an architecture, of a materiality, by using two to three natural materials per project, not more.

Louis’ vocation is to produce an architecture that values themes such as: framing, natural light, path and rhythm. He spontaneously cites Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion, designed in 1962 for the Venice Biennale of Architecture, as the ultimate reference.

Louis shares with ARCHIK more than a geographical identity, of course. The particular attention paid to materials and their quality, but also this thoughtful approach to living, this common vision of how to live and feel good at home. Let us guide you!

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Heju

Interior Designers

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Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann met on the benches of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg in 2015. After graduating, they founded their own studio HEJU in 2015 and created a universe mixing Japanese and Scandinavian influences.

Using minimalist lines and volumes, they create timeless places with the aim of optimising spaces, challenging codes and customs while advocating a return to emotion. They infuse poetry into their clients’ daily lives while favouring natural, living materials that develop a patina over time. The choice of materials, colours and textures is at the heart of their thinking in order to create atmospheres that appeal to all the senses.

At HEJU, beauty comes in the simplest details, as evidenced by their architectural compositions, furniture lines and material combinations.

Their projects are the result of deep spatial and functional reflection, in line with the essence of the place and the lifestyle of their clients. Several values unite us: the continuity between art, design and architecture, in order to create unique places. The fluidity of volumes and the love of the modernist trend.

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VOLTA

Interior Designer

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After an initial training in publishing, Agathe Lavaud’s desire to develop through creation led her to turn to architecture and interior design. After graduating from ESAG Penninghen in 2014 and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée, she completed her studies with a semester in Italy. She then joined Renzo Piano Building Workshop, where she obtained her Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en son Nom Propre.

Agathe acquired solid experience at Wilmotte & Associés, Vidalenc Architectes, and Thierry Lemaire Architecture before setting up her own structure in 2016: agence Volta. Volta stands out for its attention to detail and harmonious blend of contemporary and traditional design. Each project is unique and benefits from personalized research in terms of volumes and materials, always guided by the existing context. The result is harmonious, refined spaces that reflect a clear vision of the art of living.

Agathe draws her inspiration from natural materials and the balance between tradition and modernity. Each project is an opportunity to sublimate the existing by choosing textures and volumes in perfect harmony with the site.

Joining ARCHIK was a natural choice. Sharing a common sensibility for beauty and the enhancement of architecture, Agathe finds at ARCHIK an approach that favors the intelligent use of space and the use of timeless materials, in perfect harmony with her values.

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Baptiste LEGUÉ

Interior Designer

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Baptiste Legué trained at ESAG Penninghen in Paris and at St Luc in Brussels. As soon as he left the school, he joined the Franklin Azzi agency. For seven years, he sharpened his curiosity, affirmed his knowledge and confronted the demands of the architect-designer profession.

In 2015, he founded the Atelier Baptiste Legué. He then worked on projects for boutiques, flats, second homes or offices and more recently on a hotel project as well as a museum.

In the projects entrusted to him, the Atelier accompanies its clients from conception to delivery, from the layout of the space to the choice of materials, including furniture recommendations and the recommendation of works of art in galleries, which he particularly likes.

Whatever the use of the space to be designed, the Atelier pays particular attention to the quality of the plan, the fluidity of the circulation, the functionality of the spaces, as well as the context in which it is integrated. The Atelier’s projects all have in common that they are uncluttered, designed with raw materials that are intended to accompany their users over time and facilitate their use.

He shares with ARCHIK common values, a sensitivity to beauty and materials with a concern for detail and respect for the history of the spaces he renovates.

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ÉPICÈNE

Architecte d'intérieur

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After a career in publishing, Isabelle Heilmann desire to blossom through creation led her to train in space design at the École Boulle. She then created her agency, Épicène, in 2018, for the double grammatical sense of the term, and creates public and residential projects with a timeless aesthetic. She develops interior architecture sensitive to the history of places, with soft and fluid geometry, in a spirit of lightness that aims to achieve simplicity, elegance, harmony. An open-mindedness due to her multicultural heritage, from Italy to China through India, where Beauty has no borders and is plural.

Its remarkable architecture? The Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, Louis Kahn’s Exeter Library and Peter Zumthor’s Thermes de Vals : strong creations that have been able to magnify the limitations of the site, and propose a “total” work that is attentive to volumes, uses, choice of materials and even furniture details.

Isabelle finds her inspiration in art, design and travel. She admires the sobriety of Japanese architecture : “everything is beautiful and well thought out, an aesthetic research that integrates the most everyday object. In terms of materials, she prefers raw wood, handmade ceramics, concrete and stainless steel, with which she likes to create compositional sets and unusual associations.

With ARCHIK, she has found an ecosystem composed of aesthetes from different backgrounds united around a common vision of the art of living, to which she fully endorses.

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