Project 57-30 A.

The apartment looks down on a bend of the Seine, set between the bridges and the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower. At this altitude, the city itself becomes the backdrop to everyday life, and the whole point of a floor plan is not to fragment it.

We brought the living room, the dining area and the kitchen together into a single room to live in, articulated around a generous round table in pale marble. The kitchen, its back wall clad in veined marble, is sensed rather than displayed. A cove of indirect light runs all the way around the room, softens the corners and holds the volumes together. The chevron parquet runs from one wall to the next, without interruption.

On the night side, the bedrooms each take their turn at the city. The master suite gathers everything you expect from a main bedroom, a pale-marble bathroom and an integrated dressing room, in a palette that extends the day side. From the threshold to the horizon, nothing now stops the eye.