The infinite house

AN APARTMENT IN PARIS ON THREE LEVELS, WITH A FIFTIES TONE FEATURING WORKS BY THE GREAT MASTERS OF COMICS.

In this flat near Notre-Dame the spaces never seem to end. The rooms seem to multiply, facing the Seine or the terraces filled with plants. In all the settings of the three levels, there is always something to discover, in a flexible itinerary of remarkable harmony, a very precise stylistic concept based on a contemporary reinterpretation of the spirit of the 1950s. Everything seems to have always been there, yet this home is the combination of three different apartments, spread across three different buildings. Hélène and Olivier Lempereur, who did the restyling, explain that «the apartment of about 300 square meters stretches across three historic buildings, from the 1600s and 1700s. It has three floors, from the fourth to the sixth, so extensive structural modifications had to be made to achieve this result». Olivier Lempereur, who worked in the studio of Andrée Putman in the 1990s, where he met Hélène, guides us through the large residence. «You arrive at the fourth floor entrance. A helical staircase divides the spaces, with the dining room to the right and the large kitchen to the left, next to a bedroom. The fifth floor is the nighttime zone, while the sixth contains the studio-library and the guestroom». The Fifties leitmotif triggers harmony among the furnishings and color combinations. «We have used white, black, grays, beige and greige tones», the interior designers say. «There are also brighter accents, like the intense blue carpet in the parlor». An elegant minimalist approach that enhances the original comics by master illustrators proudly displayed on the walls, alongside works of contemporary art.