Designer Damien Langlois-Meurinne designed an apartment in Paris, from the windows of which you can see almost all the sights of Paris. Which opens from the windows. From here you can see not only the Eiffel Tower, but also the Chalo Palace, the Trocadero Park, the Grand Palace, the Louvre and Notre Dame. Such an environment delighted not only the owners, but also the designer Damien Langlois-Meurine.“There are many residential buildings on the banks of the Seine, but this one is on a hill, so the whole city is in the palm of your hand,” he says. The apartment of 344 m2 also included two parking spaces And a long balcony.

The current space is the two united apartments that belonged to the descendants of Monsieur Perrier, who built the house in 1905. The last repair was done here more than thirty years ago, and the layout was quite typical for Paris, but not very suitable for a large family with four children: a lot of small rooms connected by narrow corridors. 

The first thing Damien demolished all the walls except the carriers, and reorganized the space. The owners wanted the scenic views to go to the front, guest rooms and their bedroom. “Every time I get here, I can't move away from the window,” says the designer. In the master bathroom, he even hung a mirror so that you could admire the sights without turning your head towards the window at all. A small glazed patio with a Canadian sculpture by Elaine Cameron-Weir appeared in the back of the apartment. “I like it when there is a room without much practical purpose. The role of the patio is just to add natural light to this part of the apartment, ”explains Damien.

The location influenced not only the layout, but also the decoration. For example, Langlois-Meurine invited the French artist Florence Girette, who painted a glass tabletop of a dinner table with a pattern that looks like ripples on a river. It turned out in the spirit of paintings by Jackson Pollock. A corridor leading to children's rooms, he compares with the light installations of James Tarrell: one of the walls is painted in blue, which is reflected in the snow-white ceiling and opposite wall, so the illusion is created that all the space is of one shade. And it changes depending on the lighting outside the window.

Despite the fact that the interior has not survived any historical decorative elements, the designer is still sure that here you can feel the true spirit of Paris. It's all about the details, textures and art objects. For example, he decorated the wall with a fireplace portal in the living room with a gypsum panel in the form of divergent rays, hung an unusual Kiko Lopez mirror on the wall of the corridor, viewed from the hall, and placed abstract works by Jules Olitski and Jennifer Kobe in the living room and guest bedrooms.