“Training designer, I work on furniture, objects and decorative arts. Interior architecture is a different scale, which is an exercise that I liked to practice for the first time on the occasion of the acquisition of this apartment with my partner, says Nathan Baraness. So I started on the job, in a didactic way, and paradoxically, the change of scale made me look much simpler. »» Parisian of 7e Arrondissement, it is an unexpected dream for the designer to find an apartment on rue Jacob, in the district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in charge for him to make it a project in his image by developing a scholar’s mixer-his recipe to reach an atmosphere that resembles him. “For me, the interior architecture is like a cooking recipe, with the good balance between textures and colors, modern objects with others more patinated that give their soul instead …” Ceiling bottom with not straight walls, beams to be exposed and toults in the kitchen, it is the archetype of the apartment in the Latin district, a little difficult to live in, all in small narrow and not comfortable spaces to which Nathan Baraness must apply “his” recipe to give him life.
The patina of materials … and time
This modern reinterpretation begins with the kitchen, in which the designer replaces the tomettes with a Burgundy stone floor and blue stone cabochons in Hainaut that it balances with walnut facades and a large Rosso Levanto marble work plan. In front of a tablet, a nod to those that Charlotte Perriand or Le Corbusier could integrate into their projects, a chair Light De Gio Ponti: “I give a lot of value to an object, even industrial, because I recognize all the work of the designer behind. »» So in the living room, a small Lottier stone leather chair – “A cabinetmaker from the 1940s and 50s, who is one of those faces that I try to write a little in this apartment”- Dialogue with a 1971 Giotto Stoppino review holder when a chevron parquet and an original black marble fireplace sign a more classic base than a large carpet drawn by Giancarlo Valle comes to animate. In the bedroom, a wall fabric dresses the bed niche and the large cupboards in two different tones. For the rest, white dominates on the walls of the apartment, except for the dining room and the bathroom. In the first, a wooden base painted in pale orange underlined by a varnished oak border and a tailor-made solar yellow velvet bench create geometric motifs directly inspired by Mondrian’s works. The second, while contrasts of materials and lines, plays on its base dressed in brilliant black ceramic tiles which dialogues with a mosaic pattern pied-darling when the shower is in all-over green mosaic inspired by the hammams. A Victorian cornice discreetly underlines the contours of the room. On a section of wall, a work by Marcel Duchamp overlooks a “fireside” chair in braided straw. In the living room, murals, an underlined of walnut overlooking the entrance, the other supervised by travertine, opening on the kitchen, circulate as much the light as the gaze like breakthroughs which open on a way of life where you are never in one room without being in the other, where we see the guests arriving from the living room and where we follow the conversation from the kitchen.
