Change of era. The immaculate flight of a circular staircase leading to old service rooms under the roofs sets the tone for this apartment converted into a duplexon the top floor of a building near the Champs-de-Mars.
A large plateau punctuated by islands of intimacy
It was a necessity for Anne, Mathieu and their three teenagers, Victoire, 18 years old, Grégoire, 15 years old, and Appoline, 13 years old, so that they each had their own room. “Purchased from the co-ownership, the bedrooms and attics made it possible to redevelop the space, in particular the tiny kitchen on the first level, not very suitable for family life.”, says Anne Wiltz, the interior designer of the Chateau-Wiltz agency who, with her accomplice Cécile Chateau, orchestrated the metamorphosis. Because here, the semi-open kitchen is a serious affair, “between the brunches of our epicurean Victoire (specialist in homemade brioche!) and the impromptu lunches with friends from nearby college and high school,” confirms the hostess. .
If certain partitions have been knocked down to allow light to circulate, “the idea was not to create a plateau, a little cold, but islands of intimacy, in the spirit of a contemporary boudoir for the reading room adjacent to the living room“, says Anne Wiltz.
An elegant but not stuffy mix & match
To punctuate this new circulation, she imagined screens in light oak which provide background effects without cutting up the space, and adopted “a unity of tones, with a duck blue and terracotta palette”. Taking on the great differences of the period, she combines a chest of drawers “inherited from a grandmother” with XXL pendant lights “which give scale and poetry, like “The Bird” by Céline Wright” and with chairs found at flea markets.
And the iconic Eames armchair, whose “Mathieu has been dreaming for a long time”, is dressed in duck blue, “less serious than black”. An elegant but not stuffy mix & match, which matches Anne’s mood: “The spirit of ceremonial, she sums up, very little for me!”
