Renovation of an apartment of 180 m2 in Paris by UdA Architects

Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa from UdA Architects of Turin have recently renovated a 180 m² apartment in Paris for Isis Colombe Combréas, the general director and editor-in-chief of MilK and MilK Decoration magazines, her husband, photographer Karel Balas and their two children.

The apartment is located in a 1930s building in the 14th arrondissement north of Saint Germain. Before the restructuring project, the apartment contained a number of important pieces of design history and was still divided as it was when the property was built. The specifications of the client was clear and precise: the apartment needed to be redesigned and modernized, while minimizing the number of wall partitions, and in a short time, three months maximum. The architects have redesigned the common areas, such as the kitchen, the office and the bedrooms and bathrooms have been made more intimate, so that each member of the family can have their own space. Apart from the minor modifications of the partitions, the project was based on a system of shelving made of metal profiles and perforated sheet metal, which, because of the architectural use of the materials, paid tribute to the work of the French designer, Mathieu Matégot.