Creator of Nouvel Amour jewelry, writer: Delphine Arbo Pariente has already experienced several lives. To begin a new chapter in her story with her husband Jacques, she leaves the Marais district where she lived for a long time to settle down below Place Pigalle. This jack-of-all-trades, who has always designed her Parisian boutiques herself, then plunges back into decor…
An apartment with an eclectic style
It starts from an almost blank page: the Haussmannian apartment that the couple chose for its volumes and its brightness is decrepit, it has lost its moldingsand its floors are tired. Delphine hardly changes the distribution of this 155 m2: she is content to create openings here and there, such as between the kitchen and the dining room. But she prints her eclectic stylealternating abundant floral wallpapers and flat areas of muted colors. “I have a very precise sense of color. I made light blue, dust gray or army beige coexist, and woke it all up tiles terracotta colorful and bright touches, like the fuchsia throw and the turquoise armchair in my bedroom, or the golden accessories in the kitchen.”
I wanted to rewrite the history of this apartment, create the decor that could have been its 60 years ago
As a teacher eager for knowledge, Jacques learned to master the SketchUp software : it projects their slightest desires in 3D, to prevent them from making a mistake. He is also the one who installs teak panels on simple storage boxes to make them chic. Together, the couple created an original version of the place, more daring, with vintage furniture from the 50s to the 70s. In the background, moldings, rosettes, picture rails and others woodwork find their place. This new interior inspires Delphine so much that she wrote “Une nuit après nous” there, her first novel…
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