{"id":121743,"date":"2019-03-22T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/jacques-hervouet-interiors-radically-remakes-a-classic-paris-apartment\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:40:54","slug":"jacques-hervouet-interiors-radically-remakes-a-classic-paris-apartment","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/jacques-hervouet-interiors-radically-remakes-a-classic-paris-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Hervouet Interiors Radically Remakes a Classic Paris Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the owner of this three-bedroom<\/span> apartment on Paris\u2019s Left <\/span>Bank hired Jacques Hervouet<\/a> to re<\/span>decorate it, she avowed a profound desire for change. \u201cShe wanted it to be radically different, with nothing that reminded her of how it was before,\u201d Hervouet recalls. <\/span>He certainly took the client at her word: The 2,475-square-foot space had previously been designed in typical Napoleon III style, with chevron parquet, elaborate moldings, and little in the <\/span>way of decorating flair. Hervouet recalls a traditional bathroom wrapped in Carrara marble, and
\nso<\/span>fas \u201ca little in the style of Christian Liaigre.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

With the help of architect Odile Burnod, Hervouet removed all the florid touches, re-dimensioned doorways, and merged the kitchen and dining room into one. As for the <\/span>interior design, he devised some <\/span>rather audacious schemes, the most intrepid of which was the entry hall,
\n<\/span>its almost futuristic aesthetic inspired by the iconic sets of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Lacquered wall panels inscribed <\/span>with large diamonds and fitted with vertical LED strips meet crisscross-motif wall-to-wall carpet, creating an effect that\u2019s highly kinetic. \u201cThere\u2019s something quasi-mystical about the result,\u201d Hervouet asserts. \u201cYou feel almost as if you\u2019re in a chapel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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