Inside design studio RMGB has redesigned a Nineteenth-century townhouse reverse the Chateau de Versailles, utilizing marble and metal to modernise it whereas “preserving French heritage”.
The house’s new proprietor just lately bought his residence in Paris to maneuver again into the townhouse, which had been his childhood residence, and requested for a cautious renovation to take the inside again to its unique state.
RMGB restored the house’s broken parquet flooring and mouldings earlier than including bespoke and classic furnishings.
Attributable to its location close to the Chateau de Versailles, designers Baptiste Rischmann and Guillaume Gibert needed to take into account every change fastidiously.
“Essentially the most tough a part of the mission was complying with all of the requests made by the Architecte des Bâtiments de France, provided that the home is reverse the Château de Versailles,” the studio instructed Dezeen.
“They had been very demanding concerning the aesthetic of the mission. We needed to keep inside a sure logic of preserving French heritage.”
Rischmann and Gibert aimed for the redesign to respect the house’s unique format whereas giving it a extra fashionable really feel.
“The home hadn’t been remodelled for a number of many years,” the designers mentioned. “All of us needed to rethink and modernize the entire whereas preserving a hint of historical past.”
“Our preliminary concept was to protect the unique volumes and infuse them with a brand new aesthetic and inform a brand new story, a brand new life for our prospects.”
The designers created {custom} furnishings for a few of the rooms within the 230-square-metre home. Within the kitchen, they added a big stainless-steel cabinet with retractable doorways.
Close by, a big Calacatta Viola marble kitchen island hides the hob and oven, including a monolithic but ornamental contact.
“The concept was to combine colours and supplies in small touches, such because the pinkish-orange of the couch or the blue shade of the rug,” the studio mentioned.
“The supplies play the identical position for us, from the shine of the parquet and its deep hue to the brutality of the kitchen marble. Our intention is at all times to create steadiness by contrasting supplies.”
In the lounge, Rischmann and Gibert added a ceiling gentle by designer Nacho Carbonell, a Lek couch designed by Christophe Delcourt and a pair of 6911 classic armchairs by furnishings designer Horst Bruning.
RMBG selected the furnishings for the home primarily based on how the completely different items would work collectively when it comes to each form and color.
“We tried to attain probably the most harmonious, honest ensemble potential,” the studio mentioned. “At no level did we need to overdo the aesthetics, which meant we needed to work extra surgically.”
“Whereas the pinkish orange of the couch provides a contact of acidity, the darkish blue of the rug brings slightly extra classicism to the area,” the duo added.
“The white, taut traces of the eating desk mood the extra excessive materiality of the kitchen island. Every bit of furnishings designed or chosen for the mission was subjected to a rigorous choice course of.”
Within the bed room, the studio added a sculptural mattress impressed by the work of French designer Jean Royère. The lavatory, just like the kitchen, options putting stonework, with a bath and basin in Grigio Carnico marble.
“The basins and the bath within the parental lavatory in Grigio Carnico marble, for which we revised the design of the basic basins, giving them a extra up to date look with cleaner traces,” Rischmann and Gibert mentioned.
Different interiors with putting marble designs embody a Milan residence with a “majestic wall” and an all-marble extension to a Victorian home.
The pictures is by Matthieu Salvaing.
