The Salon

The salon runs the full width of the Rue Jacob facade, its three long windows framing the zinc rooftops and the canopy of the plane trees below. Walls are in tadelakt mixed to a warm ochre that shifts toward ivory in overcast light. The furnishings are deliberately sparse: a large low daybed in natural linen, a pair of 1950s French oak armchairs sourced from a Lyon brocante, a single woven Moroccan rug. The Halo Floor Lamp stands in the corner farthest from the windows, its washi shade glowing like a paper lantern.

The Library and Study

What was originally a second reception room now functions as a combined library and writing room for both clients. Floor-to-ceiling shelving in aged oak runs along three walls, interrupted only by a single window that looks onto the building’s internal courtyard. A long writing table in brushed steel and stone sits at the room’s centre. The floor is the original Haussmann parquet, refinished in a pale lye wash that lifts the grain without bleaching the wood.

The Kitchen

The kitchen sits at the rear of the apartment and is the most material-forward room in the plan. Cabinetry is in smoked oak with exposed iron hinges, the countertop in a fossil-rich Burgundy limestone that the client chose herself at the quarry. A glazed antique rack holds ceramics and books side by side. The room is small and purposeful, built around cooking rather than entertaining, with a wide casement that opens onto the kitchen garden on the roof above the courtyard.