EnglishModern architecture and interior architecture: the masters who built and furnished the 20th century, today’s architects and studios, our visits to exceptional houses and places, and the approaches that put people at the centre of space.
In October 1927, a twenty-four-year-old woman walked into Le Corbusier’s studio on the rue de Sèvres with a portfolio under her arm. The architect sent her away with a line that became famous: “We don’t embroider cushions here.” A few weeks later, at the Salon d’Automne, he saw the “Bar sous le toit” she had…
In 1934 he set a house on top of a waterfall. A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect who brought nature into the home.
A few steps from the Fontainebleau forest, a house reveals itself without ever imposing. Named Le Chapitre, it is neither a manifesto residence nor a frozen décor but a deeply inhabited place, shaped by time, material and the gestures of everyday life. Here lives and works Eric Schmitt, alongside Sandra Babeanu. Together they have brought…
When design becomes an art of living In the tumult of express trends and disposable interiors, Audrée Kemp Bélanger cultivates another path: that of the long term, noble materials and the link between home and nature. Landscape architect by training and founder of the studio AKB Design studio, she has been designing spaces that exude…
In the heart of the 16th arrondissement, Pauline Gretz from Atelier Portalis transforms a Parisian apartment into a jewel of refinement. A renovation where intelligent use of space and noble materials unite to create a resolutely contemporary haven of peace. Starting from Scratch Thirty-eight square meters.A surface that could be intimidating, but which becomes, in…
Imagine that your walls could soothe your anxiety, that your ceilings could spark your creativity, and that the light in your living room could influence your mood. This is not fiction, but the very principle of neuro-architecture. Born in the 2000s in the United States and Northern Europe, this discipline at the crossroads of neuroscience…
In a world where urbanization distances us from our natural roots, a silent revolution is transforming contemporary living. Biophilic architecture in the luxury segment no longer settles for looking at nature through the window: it invites it to cross the threshold, to inhabit our walls, to breathe with us. Where Art Deco celebrated industrial geometry…
Brutalism, an emblematic architectural movement of the second half of the 20th century, continues to fascinate and divide nearly sixty years after its first stirrings. Characterized by the massive use of raw concrete and imposing geometric forms, this architectural style embodies both post-war social utopias and a radical aesthetic that still marks our urban landscapes…
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