An interior designer's dream, this space had no internal structural elements and a 360° view of Paris. Once all the rooms and shutters had been ripped out, we were left with a concrete and glass tent perched above the city. In the summer it is like living outdoors. The winter days of rain and grey lose their weight and become luminous.
This was an old metal-working factory in Kreuzberg, Berlin. The apartment was conceived as a completely open space in which a large living area, including the kitchen and dining space, share a pass-through fireplace with a more intimate living area giving onto a small guest room. The biggest challenge was uniting the space with a rooftop terrace. The solution was to rip off part of the roof and fill the resulting patio with a sculptural stair establishing a generous invitation to view all of Berlin above.
The luxury of space, this was a relatively low budget project in which we tried to bring alive the bones of the building. The kitchen is a series of disparate elements that float. The long kitchen counter can be closed up and disappear.
Two worlds connected but autonomous, a place in which an artist can work and then step though a wormhole to find herself at home. A trick accomplished with sliding doors, a long punctured corridor, and clearstory windows.
Defined by a gracious gallery connecting all rooms, this space was conceived as a place to breath after a long, intense day at work. The mouldings and stone work of an overwrought 19th century family apartment were pared back or removed to leave just enough of a trace to maintain the backbone of history and create a airy, light imbued atmosphere.
A place to rest between travels, this studio is a nest in which everything has it's place and the space is left free to flow out over Paris.
