The brief was 48 square metres in central Paris. The client wanted it to feel like a small hotel suite in Kyoto — quiet, exact, with one perfect view from every seat.
Designing for the long sight-line
Compact apartments fail when they try to do everything. They succeed when they choose two or three gestures and execute them at full scale: a single uninterrupted oak counter, one wall of pale plaster, one window framed like a painting.
The trick is not to shrink furniture. It is to remove anything the room does not need to perform its single, generous idea.
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Elena Marchetti
Founding Partner, Maison Aurea
