CAMBRONNE

It is in the 15th arrondissement of Paris that the peaceful district of Cambronne takes place.

Cambronne escapes the tourist tumult of the city and offers a green local setting with on one side the square Cambronne and on the other, the square Garibaldi.

Rich in leisure opportunities and hosting several schools, family life is particularly pleasant. 810 meters long and offering a wide range of local shops, rue Cambronne stretches from rue de Vaugirard to place Cambronne where bistros and cafés invite you to relax.

Cambronne is a privileged residential urban sector, which harmoniously combines luxury Haussmann buildings and cubic buildings from the 1970s.

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Born into an artistic family, Lucie is sensitive to the spirit of the place. After completing a Khâgne, two humanities degrees at the Sorbonne and a communications diploma at the London School of Economics, she first explored her love of stories in publishing and then in the media.

Several projects, including an apartment in the heights of Belleville in Paris, a townhouse in Marseille’s Panier district and a farmhouse in the Perche region of France, have given her a foothold in the world of renovation and architecture.

From ancient buildings to modernism, all architectural trends appeal to her as long as they bring the soul of a place to life. Sensitive to the precepts of Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy, she is passionate about the work of Axel Vervoodt, which gives pride of place to natural inspiration and contemplation.

Attached to places that tell stories and have been designed to house them, it’s obvious that she should turn to ARCHIK. Drawing on this sensitivity and a human ear, she accompanies those who, like her, are keen to encounter singular architecture that embraces their dreams.

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GRENELLE

To the northwest of the 15th arrondissement, bordering the very chic 7th arrondissement and its Champs de Mars, is the Grenelle district, directly linked to the 16th by the famous Pont Bir Hakeim.

Until the end of the 19th century Grenelle was a vast sandy plain where rabbits reigned. Today, the district is better known for its large residential towers and for its brand new shopping center than for its historical past of which few vestiges remain. Built in 1905, the essential Passy viaduct, renamed by General De Gaulle “Pont de Bir Hakeim” has since served as the setting for many films.

To the north of the district and adjoining the 7th arrondissement, don’t miss the Swiss Village, today an essential micro-district for art collectors and antique hunters. Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, it was at the time a reconstruction of a real Swiss village to become in the 1960s, the village that we know, with modernist architecture, with its glass tiles and its patios.

The Grenelle district offers a living environment where history and architecture mingle.

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As the daughter of an architect, Eline grew up in the midst of Parisian construction sites and the creative effervescence of competitions at her father’s firm, where prestigious names such as Hôtel Drouot and Théâtre du Rond-Point resonated. It was the construction of Renzo Piano’s Centre Georges Pompidou that made the deepest impression on her, inspiring an unshakeable passion for architecture. She took her first steps in the field by collaborating with her father on the construction and renovation of several houses and apartments, enjoying every opportunity to breathe new life into spaces with a fresh vision.

The architectural currents of the Bauhaus, embodied by the works of Walter Gropius and Rietveld’s Schröder House, as well as the ideals of De Stijl architects such as Le Corbusier and his Villa Savoye, had a profound influence on her perception of space and design. His love of glass, exemplified by the Eames House, and his admiration for the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames, as well as his attraction to modern materials such as steel and titanium, represented by the works of Franck Gehry, testify to his passion for innovation and modernity in architecture.

Yet it was perfume, the often neglected art of composition, that became the common thread running through her life. After a successful career with major companies such as Henkel and Coty, where she developed a keen eye for cultural, artistic and architectural trends, she turned to the world of fragrance. After graduating from ISIPCA in perfume creation, she founded her own company, creating scented objects for the home. Over the years, she has discovered the riches of craftsmanship around the world, drawing inspiration from every encounter to create unique objects.

Following the sale of her business, she embarked on the renovation of a Parisian pied-à-terre, a project that took her back to her architectural roots, carried out hand in hand with ARCHIK Paris. And she joins the adventure, finding harmony between entrepreneurship, architecture, design and real estate, and wishing to put her expertise at the service of her customers.

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PLAISANCE

Located between Gare Montparnasse and Parc Montsouris, the Plaisance district retains its formerly suburban air.

A former agricultural hamlet, the Plaisance district became the favorite place of sculptors, engravers and all kinds of artists in the early 1900s. Populated with individual houses with interior courtyards that have become small workshops, the streets of the district are real places to stroll.

Not far from Place Victor and Hélène Basch, Impasse du Moulin Vert presents itself as the typical passage of the district with authentic charm. Place de Seoul, Notre-Dame-du-Travail church, rue des Thermopyles or the villa of Alésia are just as many curiosities that are worth the detour. The backbone of the district, rue Raymond is the shopping street of Plaisance. Food shops and tasty stalls punctuate the district to the delight of its residents.

The district of Plaisance has retained an incomparable charm and offers to the curious walker beautiful discoveries.

 

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Although Marine began her career as a private law lawyer in Paris, she is without doubt the most Mediterranean of all Parisians !

Indeed, her childhood in Marseille was punctuated by weekends in the Camargue, and Sundays in Sormiou and Les Goudes. She’ll never forget these Mediterranean jaunts, and it’s no surprise that she decided to leave Paris with her husband and set down her bags in Tunis in 2014. She immersed herself in the city’s post-revolutionary effervescence, discovering its stalls and mazes and coming into contact with artisans, and decided to change course. In love with materials, crafts and local know-how, she decided to develop a concept to promote craftsmanship through the creation of 100% made-in-Mediterranean decorative objects in materials such as wrought iron, leather or palm fiber: “IJA” was born.

After returning to the South of France, she decided to change course and discovered ARCHIK. And working with the brand was an obvious choice: combining her legal expertise with her love of architecture and beauty, with a common denominator: a taste for others. Discovering unique properties, meeting people from all walks of life, accompanying them in their life projects – that’s the ARCHIK spirit!

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BELLEVILLE

Located in the northeast of the capital, Belleville is a popular, colorful and friendly district, shaped by artists and musicians, a real hotspot of urban culture.

Former commune attached to Paris in 1860, Belleville has a strong artistic and working-class past and was built on a hill, which makes it a resolutely picturesque district. Another face of the capital can be discovered in this area with pop and joyful colors, known throughout Europe for its street art. Belleville offers a walk off the beaten track where modern buildings, small villages and townhouses rub shoulders. In rue Rébéval is an industrial building from the 1920s, typical of the Art Deco movement, whose facade with rounded volumes is colored with orange bricks. The district is also known for its hilly park, from which you can admire Paris from a panoramic angle. Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful views of the capital.

In Belleville everyone is there: artists, trendy youth, young executives and tourists, all looking for a lively district full of diversity.

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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.