fas \u201ca little in the style of Christian Liaigre.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\nWith 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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/noscript>In the master bedroom, a Garouste & Bonetti Koala sofa joins an early 1970s painting by Guy Perron and an enamelled stoneware lamp from the same decade. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span><\/p>\nDespite her desire for wholesale reinvention, the client, a businesswoman and former doctor, did \nrequest one anachronism. She <\/span> \ninsisted Hervouet integrate a family <\/span>heirloom into the new design: a \nmahogany square piano dating from 1795. Hervouet, who found a spot for it in the entry, liked the idea of mixing something classical into such an avant-garde environment. The request also appealed to his love of music. He started playing the <\/span>piano at age five and once considered embarking on a professional career. \u201cIn some ways, I regret not having done so, because I love \nbeing constantly bathed in music,\u201d Hervouet says. \u201cBut I\u2019m also quite happy I didn\u2019t, because I get terrible stage fright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/noscript>In the dining room, Norman Cherner chairs surround a 1970s table top with Saint-Gobain glass and earthenware dish by Helle Damkjaer through Galerie Carole Decombe; a bronze floor lamp by Carlo Scarpa joins a 1960s tapestry by Ateliers Pinton. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
Hervouet\u2019s life took a different path. He worked in advertising for a decade, during which time he rubbed <\/span>shoulders with Charles Saatchi and worked on Kodak campaigns with photographers Jean-Paul Goude and <\/span>Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Then, in 2005, he opened a decorative arts gallery on Paris\u2019s Rue de l\u2019Universit\u00e9, which specializes in the work of \nMaison Jansen, midcentury Italian masters such as Gio Ponti and Ico Parisi, and French designers Paul Dupr\u00e9-Lafon, Line Vautrin, and Marie-Claude de Fouqui\u00e8res, among others. Galerie Hervouet ultimately spawned a parallel decorating practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n <\/noscript>The Roy\u00e8re sofa and a pair of 1950s Federico Munari armchairs are upholstered in cotton velvet. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe interiors Hervouet creates generally have a number of commonalities\u2014all in evidence here. \nFor one, he tends to avoid using cur<\/span>tains. \u201cI hate them,\u201d he declares. \u201cIn the best-case scenario, they\u2019re acceptable and in the worst, they\u2019re absolutely horrible. They\u2019re never straight, and they absorb all the natural light.\u201d Hervouet also prefers neutral-toned sitting rooms\u2014\u201cthe places where you spend most of your time should not inspire visual fatigue\u201d\u2014but introduces bright pops of color in secondary spaces. And he loves integrating curves, \nas witnessed by the living room\u2019s vintage red-lacquered coffee table, custom sorci\u00e8re<\/em> mirror, and Federico Munari armchairs, not to mention the round motifs in the master bathroom. \u201cFor me, the circle represents completeness, softness, and perpetual renewal,\u201d Hervouet says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n <\/noscript>In the TV room, a scenic wallpaper mural depicting a Chinese landscape backdrops a vintage Philip Arctander armchair; the coffee table is a 1950s design by Maurice Pr\u00e9. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span><\/p>\nHis inspiration for the opalescent master bath came from two sources. The first is a pair of bathrooms in the French Foreign Ministry\u2014one in gold mosaic, the other in silver\u2014 \ncreated in 1938 for a state visit by the British king and queen. The second is, quite simply, Japan. \u201cThe circle is central to Japanese cosmology, and I also wanted to reproduce the iridescence of the moon\u2014a recurrent element in traditional etchings,\u201d <\/span>Hervouet explains. Another nod to Asia comes in the TV room, where he installed a panoramic wallpaper depicting China\u2019s Yunnan mountains in India ink.<\/p>\n\n <\/noscript>On the other side of the room sits a vintage Bouloum chaise by Olivier Mourgue. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
One of Hervouet\u2019s constants is \nto test the limits of good taste. \u201cFor me, true elegance implies a sense \nof freedom,\u201d he explains. Here, he papered the walls of the powder room with an oversized panther \nmotif, and there are humorous touches elsewhere. \u201cIn every room there should be something a little incongruous, to show you don\u2019t take yourself too seriously,\u201d he says. The living room\u2019s Hubert Le Gall floor lamp, with its base in the form of \nan elongated bird, certainly conjures a smile. In the master bedroom, meanwhile, an anthropomorphic Olivier Mourgue chaise longue reposes in close proximity to a drawing of a naked John Lennon viewed from behind.<\/p>\n
\n <\/noscript>The bedspread fabric is a cotton-acrylic tapestry weave; the vintage Liane wall light is by Jean Roy\u00e8re, and the bedside table by Gio Ponti. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
The late pop star appears to be looking over his shoulder toward the bed, which sits on a freeform sky-blue rug and sports a cover whose tropical motif evokes Gauguin paintings. Above it a \nRoy\u00e8re Liane light fixture, reminiscent of a climbing plant, clings to the wall. \u201cI wanted my client to \nfeel as if she was in the sky or on \na Pacific Island,\u201d Hervouet notes. Wherever she\u2019s transported when she lies down to rest, one thing is for sure: It\u2019s a world away from the apartment she knew before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n <\/noscript>In the entry hall, a 1960s chair attributed to Archizoom Associati joins an early 1970s sculpture and lacquered panels integrating LED strips. Photography by Stephan Julliard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/span><\/p>\nProject Team: <\/strong>S<\/span>arah de Beaumont: Stylist; Odile Burnod Architectes: Architect.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacques Hervouet Interiors radically remade a classic Paris apartment. <\/span>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. H<\/span>e devised some <\/span><\/span>rather audacious interior design schemes, among them the entry hall, <\/span><\/span>its almost futuristic aesthetic inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3526,"featured_media":150059,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":16149},"tags":[],"id_tax_domain":[155,16],"id_tax_product":[],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-121743","id_project","type-id_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","id_tax_domain-homes","id_tax_domain-residential"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJacques Hervouet Interiors Radically Remakes a Classic Paris Apartment - Interior Design<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n