HOUSE TOUR: Inside the Paris Apartment of Tabletop Designer Marie Daâge

on today's episode of homeworthy we're bringing you inside the Chic Parisian apartment of iconic tabletop designer Marie Dodge fascinated by color and pattern Marie's home is an extension of her world-renowned hand-painted porcelain collections sophisticated luxurious and cool enjoy this special episode presented by homeworthy and Marie Dodge you're watching homeworthy where we believe every home has a story like And subscribe for more Hello I'm maridaja welcome bonjour the Avenue welcome to my home in Paris [Music] hello welcome at my house I am maridas a designer for tabletop since 30 years you are here in my apartment in Paris we are in the eighth hour this morning really in the middle of Paris in this very famous osmanian part of of the town so I have a big family I have six children so this was a family house and also my work house because I had a showroom here so we used to be eight people living here today my children are grown up and I just have my husband and one boy with us and then the other one are coming from time to time so the building is from the 1870s so it's a very lovely building in Opera we say we are here on the fourth floor which is I think very nice because we are in the sky and I have the view on the Tua of Paris and I have a lovely view on when I am on the balcony because on the fourth floor you have the balcony running along the apartment which for me is nice because it for me it's like having a little garden and having um not being in the street you know it maintains you a little privacy outside which is luxury in Paris and when I am on my balcony I have a wonderful view on the left on the Dome of the church Saturday gusta which is a little bit like a room and view because it's a it's the highest Dome of Paris so the story of majidaj was really an improvisation and it grew up with my family I started to do porcelain when 30 years ago I had some lessons with friends and I never had imagined that one day it could become a job and a company like it is today during all my childhood in fact um decoration table art was really in the center of of the family atmosphere and um so very naturally when I started to paint porcelain I I jumped in the thing um and for me it was not only painting some patterns but it was also bringing a whole lifestyle which is a very the French identity of la de Viva La francaise table art okay so welcome here in my foyer so as you see right at the beginning you have my identity I am a stripe lover so all around the place you are welcomed by these tribes black and white which allowed me to put lots of different color because everything is matching with black and white here my my wishes was also to enlarge the space so as you will see a lot around my house I love to play with mirrors initially you had this little niche which is a beautiful Niche very osmallian with this interesting work of wood uh and on the top also you see the branches it's a very beautiful osmanian work and there was already this mirror I just put it some lamps to to make a little bit of dramatic decor here I put my bird I'm also a bird lover it's a bird from Brazil which is welcoming you in the house and on the other side I create this mirror which goes from the top to down so that it's like a little droplet we have impression that the flat is going going going you have the reflection of the two mirrors which is uh interesting um I put I painted in this blue blue black not completely black but always the Sceptile tone and with his commode in front this is a sculpture of a very dear friend you will find some other one in the restaurant house a lot of our pieces are pieces made by France I love to be surrounded with what my dear friends are doing beautiful things um here my little goblet which is used as a perfume candle because I have three fragons all made in Grass I think it's important when you arrive in a place you have the colors but we have also the smell I mean all your scents must be attracted I I love to put music so when you arrive you will have the eyes with the stripes the music and a little bit of perfume welcoming you so here we have two chairs Austrian chairs Vita Maya very typical with this black little detail it comes from my grandmother something a little bit surprising here which shouldn't be here it's this huge uh pictures it's used Tableau in fact it's we just bought it in auction It's a grand run father of my husband which was a famous painter and it was done for an exhibition in the 19th century so this is here but this should go in my country house it's a little bit big here in Paris um to stay in the paintings here we have some view of the sea this we find it in the Attic in the countryside and in fact it's made by a quite famous painter so it was really a lovely discover in the Attic on the other side I have two paintings of trains which were made by another grandfather of my husband so it was quite an artistic family here you see the window the lights coming from this very very lovely stained glass which is a typical osmanian part of peas that you will always find in the entrance of um of a house which is lovely turquoise and champagne color pattern I think it brings really a lovely color inside and in the night I have some lights so that when you arrive you you really have this like a picture it's very beautiful in the evening here some plant green because that's also typical from the 19th century in all these apartments you would always have this exotic trees they were fascinated by exoticism in the 19th century um on the floor I have this carpet black and white which is from the 50s coming from the gallery if there's two which was where is a man who brings the 50s update and Famous so this is my entrance what I love in my job is that it's combining um Warcraft handcraft handcraft work and thanks this technique that I really I'm really maintaining which was a hand-painted porcelain this is something which is disappearing today I think we are the only one still doing 100 percent freehand painted porcelain and so it's very exciting to maintain this tradition and to be yes to be the one who will keep this alive when I arrive in limerage to try to find people who can paint with me for me because I was painting alone and at the end it was too much I was painting day and night it was crazy I arrived in some little Atelier and they were all closing because there were no business anymore on hand-painted porcelain so for me it's really very exciting to think that I maintain this tradition uh the other thing which is very nice with table art is that it's something which has something to do with entertaining with being together with sharing you see so it's not only decoration like curtains or sofa it's really dressing a table and being part of this important time of the life I think in life all important moments like meeting someone introducing your fiance to your family enjoying because you have a successful year so with your all your colleagues you are going to organize a dinner and in the historical part all the Wars all the weddings between Queens everything was around a table it was a diplomatic way of showing your power and it's a nice way also to share and to say to your family you are important for me and I'm going to spend time dressing lovely table from the entrance I will bring you to a very important room for me because this is a room where I spend during 20 years 80 of my time I mean this is my office showroom which is really a room it was very important when I decided to buy this flat because I was looking for a space where I could work by being also at the same time in my house this room used to be the historical dining room of the house it's very typical again osmanian the decoration of the ceiling of the walls of the chimney is a typical Renaissance inspiration of the let's say the Loire Castle Valley uh Style with this ceiling in Quezon we'll say and this very amazing chimney wooden chimney a little bit crazy completely oversized I think but I love it and we are the only one in the whole building still having this chimney so it's really a historical piece um also very typical from the traditional dining rooms in the osmanian style is a bow window because in the dining rooms you always had a bow window where they used to put some a little bit like a green garden I seen the other in the 19th they put in these plants so for us it would have of course fabulous to have this because this used to be the showroom we were also doing some shootings so the lighting here is fantastic so as you see here the walls I have dare to do them in Gold it was important for me to find a warm color I don't know I hate boring things so I wouldn't have done it in Gray or white of course but I needed something which would quite neutral and which could rise up all my palette of colors so gold was ideal and I choose here this lovely gold fabric to separate this part of the room with the other part where I have a little oven to experiment my colors it's my little technical place this beside um so here all around the walls you have these shelves where I used to put all my new collection this is where the space where I have my clients coming uh the car the Parker the wooden Parker I painted it in Black again to have something quite neutral so here it's really a play with black white and gold you see here you have the heaters which are hide in this wasri black I did the black frame here and black of course also iron um for my porcelain here I can explain you my concept which is quite easy to understand here on the on the table you see lots of colors this is my palette I have 68 colors that I all create myself it's really like creating a perfume by mixing some colors sometimes there are eight ten colors for one for one color and beside I have my little oven where I taste my colors because colors can change after being heated so this is really a work like creating a perfume so the way it worked my concept is you have 68 colors and 90 collection 230 different patterns here I have Illustrated all my plates in only three very neutral colors so this is the way to work choose your pattern choose your colors and you create your own set that's all about maridaj it's really to be able to have completely bespoke sets so in fact you see here the what I have done is that I have chosen always you can see all the plates are the same color it's really to explain the concept uh all the plates here are done in three colors neutral colors two shades of blue and gray for instance when you look at a plate like this you see you have Navy dark blue light blue and some gray lines this means that you can choose three colors and so this plate can become a plate like this so here what I have done is that I have chosen some pink some green and some gold and it gives me a plate like this this plate could be like this here my client you have chosen some orange some Celadon and some brown so depending on the Fabrics on the style of the house I will really make exactly bespoke collections for the client which is fantastic because it allows everyone to become very creative that's why my designers love to work with us because they can offer to the clients something so much personalized it's really so important and so you have your own set matching to your house which is something that you couldn't have if it was printed you see this plate for instance again three colors have been chosen we have chosen some green we have chosen some blue and we have light up the Middle with some red this could be in gray and black and the look will be completely different so there are as many possibilities as your imagination can could imagine and I love when it's a little bit borderline so this uh concept allows to do some very daring uh sets because they will they are all individual so it's it's great it's fun so here we are in the sitting room sitting room is looking in the roads and you have the balcony all along the the flat this room used to be a double room here when I arrived there was a hole here so you could go in the other room and there was this two double doors on both sides which was a little bit strange I think that historically here there was a glass door but which has disappeared so I decided to put this big mirror it's uh orig traditional way of doing mirrors in Mercury that's why you have all these little spots but it it makes it more interesting and it's a nice link with old mirrors which used to be already in the flat on top of all chimneys so here uh this mirror traditional mirror where already is part of the building so 1870 I didn't change anything it was gold like this with this interesting uh gray painting around so you see a lovely wooden work all around the the mirror as we are in the ceiling uh one thing which I loved also a lot in this apartment is a sophistication of the work of stuff stufo we say you see on the ceiling there are all these Volute plaster work which is again really the osmanian style and on the top of all the doors also a very beautiful work of flowers and branches I try to really rise them up by leaving all this framing of the doors in white as the walls I choose this color which I create it was I spent quite a lot of time trying to find this color because I didn't want that it becomes Palm or brown so it's a mix of lots of different colors that I created fact it's a kind of we call it Maro glassy very often when I try to find a color for my walls I go from my palette of colors so this would be my color number 14 because all my colors have got some numbers which is Mario glassy and I like very much this color because it allows you everything around you can put pastel colors dark past colors it always works it's a very easy going background color so in this room you will find thousands of different colors so I really dare to mix everything because I think as long as the colors are subtile and interesting you can mix them as many as you want um as I'm here besides the chimney I decided to do these two Bonnet which are some can be open so you can put lots of books inside magazines and and I did this um pillows in this canvas fabric with very shocking pinks which will in fact quite contrast with uh you will see my for instance my carpet which is not at all the same family of colors but it doesn't matter as long as the color is beautiful it will be it will be okay you see here you have very feminine and shocking pink color and in fact my carpet has much more Brown [Music] um burgundy more masculine colors but it works it's a beautiful work of iron of its Irish iron carpet and as it's handmade you have very subtle tones which allowed to make the link with more shocking colors for the sofa I have these two enormous sofa you can sit inside and you can read and you get falling asleep very quickly because it's so comfortable that it's like being in a bed with all the feathers um the table is very big I like when you have a very generous table because sometimes also you may have some little uh spontaneous little dinners when I was this is a table that I have since 30 years I made it done it's in iron and where we are young married in our little flat we had already this huge table and we didn't have any dining room so we used to have our dining sitting on the floor and being around this table it was our dining table um it's modern it's simple so it can be really mixed with all my more traditional furniture here you have two luikas Berger uh as you see the Fabrics completely different but it doesn't matter it makes these come from this is coming from Istanbul some are coming from India this is a purefrey one it's an inspiration of of this Uzbek pattern so it's always I like when I travel to bring back some little souvenirs that when I'm in my house I keep on traveling in front of the chimney you have these two little poof which I love very convenient when you have a dinner when you're entertaining because you can sit like this you can sit like that you can bring your poof and have a conversation on the side I hate when there is a big circle and only this big huge circle I like when you can move around and have some conversation all around the room this is a beautiful sculpture from Chipotles I bought it in auction I love auctions so I like auctions because you go there and you never know what you are going to bring back sometimes it can be some birds or a chair or a lamp this time it was this woman which is you know protecting her from the wind she I think she's very feminine you know my auction passion comes from my childhood my mother loved Antics and I spend a lot of time with her every time we were coming to France in auction it was in Oleo in Paris and I remember the excitement of doing this and saying shall we get the thing or shall we not get the thing and it was so fun because you never know really what you are going to end to have at the end of the day so this is fun and also my I I love antiques because my mother in Martinique was I think the first woman who get interested in colonial Furniture the English Island had a lot of beautiful Furniture but the French one people were not interested anymore in colonial Furniture so she used to go to Barbados to Domingo and to buy some completely broken things sometimes and to bring them back to Martinique and to have them restored so all my childhood I was following her and going to to this man who was restoring the furniture so really um old furniture is also part of my my childhood on both sides of the chimney you have these two uh Tom perhaps which are stones in fact it was painted in in the US it's a friend who did these two paintings um I like these white Shades that they bring and this wall warm atmosphere they bring and very nearly abstract um here another bronze work from my dearest friend Marine aguilor the same as the one in the entrance so this idea of being surrounded by France so for the curtains I love this silk color green gold which can be really a good link with all the colors of the room I want to show you really these details of the windows because these are really very very beautiful um work in bronze that you don't find anymore in all osmanian Flats so this is really something also which attracted me a lot when I saw this and I did them I keep the gold here and here it's painted in what we call Cudo Cano it was really the way to do it in Black like this um moving a little bit more here you know I like also very much finding pieces and reinterpreting them so these were very simple verses that I transformed in as a lamp with these branches that I painted in Orange to give the impression of of coral so it was a funny way to create some lamps um the orange is linked with this lovely photo which is also a piece of art made by a friend and here a little bit of ethnic remember of some African travels that we did with my husband so I like when it's sophisticated but you know not too uh too sophisticated that you think oh I got daring to sit on this seat I'm not daring to to touch because it's also perfect it has to be spontaneous you know cool and like it's obvious it's beautiful but it's it's everyday life and we live with beautiful things and we deserve it and we don't have to be scared of you know of that it's the same thing with my portal and I always say to people don't keep your lovely porcelain in the in the cupboard use them you deserve to use it life should be with beautiful things and like a flower bouquet you don't need to have a huge flower bouquet with very sophisticated flowers just go in the in the garden just go in the countryside and cut some flowers next to the road some wild flowers take some wild leaves from the trees and put them in a bouquet and that would be the most beautiful bouquet don't need to go to the very expensive flower shop so here we come back to my mirror uh these two huge trees are in iron I bought them in a salon I thought I would put them on the chimney because it was in a big big hole I didn't have any idea that they were so big when I arrived here I said oh they're not going to be on the chimneys they're going to be on the floor but it's like it's like a green garden and here uh painting of my husband he's very proud of his painting here a little bit of a wild atmosphere with my African mask my Austrian grandmother and here's some sand of our travels in the deserts and this uh again my goblet has a perfume candle because as I told you I think in each room you it's important to have a little bit of or so your nose being interested in something happening um my big piano the Miku very big takes a lot of space but you know it's important to have a good sound and here it's more your ears which are going to be attracted I have a son who is a very good piano player and who is creating some music so it's very nice in the evening sometimes when you do cocktails when he was younger and he wanted to have a tip of money I he used to play you know he was just sitting and play what was coming in his head and play some music for the friends which I think it's also fun here you have a big vase was in this interesting work of brush stroke and just some branches you know I think nothing nicer than big branches I remember when we were coming back for weekend with my children they were always complaining because the car was always full of branches so they have all the branches in the head and at the time we were living at the fourth floor with no lift so we were and my husband also was complaining because we were carrying the children the luggage the branches and all the little animals coming out of the branches but you know I it's very important for me when I'm in the countryside when I arrive in my house I open the the vole and first thing I do is to go around and cut branches branches to put in all the pots and then I can think about what do we have for eating is there something in the fridge or not but important first branches all around the place so you see here I want really to show you the details of the door knobs which are really beautiful work you have this Olive leaves work with this little um all this work you see with the branches with a photo card work it's really a really a beautiful work and this I really wanted to maintain I was lucky because it was already with this original goal it has never been painted as it's very often unfortunately done people paint that in white because the sizes find that gold is to I don't know what because you want to make it modern and so here we already have the original gold bronze work which is really something um very variable for me and all all the work from the top to the bottom is really from the origin and on the doors panels you have again this lovely work of wood so this is the lucky thing when you are arriving in a flat in an apartment of this period Osman because all the all the beauty of the ceiling doors windows is there and it's part of the history of the flat so I think that's important to to keep so here my balcony my little garden Parisian Garden with this very lovely view on the church Saturday Vista which is the highest Dome of Paris with a cross on the top I love this view it's a little bit my Roman view Italian view so on the balcony this is full of sun in summertime so it's really nice and when there is too much sun we just put a little bit of the star so it gives impression to be a little bit at home outside which is nice [Music] foreign [Music] so let's say we are entertaining we just had a nice operative and now the show is starting so I see everyone Cesar Vena Tabla and we open the doors the room where things happen where we will entertain where we will have exciting conversation together and we will spend a very unique time with friends and family so this room as I told you before used to be linked with the room we just saw because here again I have this big frame which were empty and here I decided again to put some mirrors to have this lovely reflection between the different mirrors I use the same old technique mirrors with all these little dots of Mercury but here as you can see instead of having the iron lines I have just this lovely iron button which will make the intersection of the of the mirror so it's another way to cut mirrors and to interpretate them um on the other side the same chimney because you remember on the other room here it was open so before you had these two chimney looking at each other it's exactly the same chimney as in the other room it's exactly the same mirror gold and gray than in the other room um on the chimney I have this my vase my attenavas in The Panache collection with this lovely work brush stroke work which can remind some some feathers here it's in this blue gray tones and a round candle you will see in this room that there are candles everywhere I find when you have a dinner it's very important to have a very gentle and soft lighting because everyone looks so much more nice when you have the lighting of the candle so everything I can find where I could put a candle I will use them I will show you after so here I have all this glass candle which I think are nice because in front of the mirror it it plays with a reflection of light with transparence of mirror and glass so we have here Six Candles in different heights making a lovely Decor of in front around the vase on both sides of the mirror this graveyardine which was a very famous 18th century naturalist painter and it was specialized in birds so this is a collection I find them in Alexandria in Egypt where I used to live with my husband when we were just young married um the wall are painted in this soft green again a color that I have created on my own mixing some powders because you know I think that's really the way to find the ZIP tile green I want to have green is also a quite a traditional color for dining rooms in the French dining rooms when you go to visit some customs you will often see this the where a model we call it almond Green in the dining rooms here on the wall um I create this I put these little shelves which are a fantastic way to change the decor because depending on the season because depending on the mood or what I have under my hands I will change what I put on my shelves I never it's always changed always always always sometimes you may have flower pots with flowers when it's spring sometimes you may have more winter decoration sometimes it's blue gray like here sometimes it's orange yellow I mean this can always change I think in the dining room it can be really more territorial atmosphere so this Decor has to move has to change like you will see on the table this is really interesting so here today today I have put some plates of my jarda do they poor collection with this cute little birds Ready To Fly Away and in the middle my jars in my iconic Transat collection stripes in this snake green and gray Shades and what I love to do also always this lighting because I avoid to light my central light so full of little lighting spots with the little candles here I have a silver old louises a chandelier on this Buffet this the story of the buffet is fun because I find it in the street it was thrown by someone I guess this must have been a Furniture which were used in some traditional shops because behind you can see some shelves so I think the man who was selling was beside behind this and it was a a shop Furniture so I just painted in the same color of the wall so that it's really like an architectural element I keep the wood like it was I didn't paint it on the top you have this sort of the table we call it also very typical 18th century with the mirror and this work of balcony all around um here my little teacups I will show you not for tea because here we have a dinner but it can be used for other things um this is my uh savitar foot stand which is a traditional shape that you could find in all the traditional sets I know in the countryside I have thousands of this in the cupboard because it thinks that all the plates get broken but these you still have them so I did them now in my modern Decor it's also something that sometimes yeah I use it with fruits which is a traditional way to use them but I use it also sometimes to put some candle on top you know these big round candles it can be also a nice way to to bring light in the middle of the table so it can this can become a candle holder like it everything so here this very lovely uh piece of furniture that I find in auction and I couldn't not buy it because it's Austrian in fact um it's you know it's painted with this uh I think it's a little bit of humoristic and it's a good way to show my collection of caraf Crystal kahaf like on the chimney I love the play of transparence of glass of Crystal and uh and mirror uh in front you have this lovely biscuit work a little uh by putting a needle out of his feet and on the bottom also a lovely biscuit work so this is also very convenient when you want to put some dishes or because when we have dinner we bring the food in the dishes of course we don't bring it directly in the plate so it can be a place where to put dishes this is a very beautiful Baroque piece a particular a particular Tabernacle cast and we call it in Austria and it comes from my grandmother so it's something from the 17th century so it's quite Raw it's a very beautiful work of paneling of different wood panels also I want to show you my favorite little cup completely broken but which inspires me a lot it's really part of my love with porcelain this comes from my grandmother Austrian grandmother and in Austria you really also have a very strong tradition of porcelain and I love the very modern way of painting this thing with black and with this tie-dye work of hand painted a beautiful hand-painted work as you can see it has got a long story it has been fixed up several times let's so this would be maybe my little totem piece so now uh we arrive in the center part of the room and of the house let's say because it's a table um I used to have a very traditional English mahogany table which completely break down when dinner it it falls down because I know I think the foods were a little bit damaged and so it was a big drama so um and in fact it was good luck because it was a good opportunity to change and to do some things that I always have wanted to do is to be able to have two tables or one table so I made um I asked iron craft man to build these two tables they are very simple very modern very you know you shouldn't really notice them it's because the star here is not the tailor the star is what is on the table so it's I wanted them to be black so very neutral I did some it's a shiny black so it's not too much um sad I mean it has a reflection of the lights also and also because of the walls so it's not like a black hole you see it's also not really a color because it's a reflection of lots of different colors so what is fantastic with these two tables is that I can have lots of different options of organizing my dinner there are two identical tables they are not completely Square they are a little bit rectangular so I can choose to be either a little dinner eight people or six people so I would be just around one table and this will remain free we can be 12 so I will put the two tables together generally when I put the table together I put a big tablecloth on top so it will be look like more you know the traditional Countryside table very nice when you have a big family dinner and if we are a lot like 16 I find it very nice to have two Separate Tables like I did today today I did six and six so 12. because I think it's nice sometimes to be able to have a general conversation when it's a big table you generally speak with your two Neighbors but you don't have a general conversation which sometimes you would like to have even more if I decided that this evening I want to introduce this guy with this woman and this and this so it's nice when they can speak together so it's more intimate to have two tables they have charged together during the operative in the sitting room and now they are going and I can choose who I want to speak with who because I'm going to put them I'm going to put this woman next to this man so that they have to speak because very often when you arrive you are going to speak with the people you know and the people you don't know you don't speak with them which is a little bit sad because at the end of the dinner I wanted that this guy meets this guy or this woman and they have him speak so during the dinner I can decide who is going to speak with who so on a table like this you can really have interesting uh common conversation so that is little by strategy on the table so generally I will I decide of course who is sitting next to who as you know the French etiquette yeah two different way of dressing a table the hostess and her husband will be at the two extreme of the table if you have a big table this is an English way of a president and the French way will be when you have the two tables together to sit one in front of the other on this side of the table the more important person on the right of the hostess it may be someone who have never came to you it can be the older one you know you decide who is a more important person and then you put of course woman man woman one around the table um so here I decided to do two tables of six and you will see that on these two tables there are two different color stories going on uh here we are more in the purple blue um Shades and red shades and here on the other table we are more in the green aubergine colors so in this room you have a big family of chairs from very different countries so this is I had a full set of 10 chairs these are Austrian chairs that I found in auction I did buy both them to put them in my mouth in the mountains in my Chalet in the mountains but I find that they were really fun in Paris a little bit unexpected to have this very rustical Austrian chairs more peso you know farmer chairs and I I find they were fun in this room and here more English traditional English chairs and on the side Austrian Bida Maya chairs so you really have the whole world here it's very International here and very different styles from the most sophisticated to the more rustical and it works this was a gift of my mother When We Were Young married because for my mother as I told you everything which is around the table is very important so she gave us this traditional English table that we break but the chair are still there and these chairs Austrian one come from my grandmother in Austria and this I bought them in auction in a very little auction house I was we were having a weekend by some friends in north of Paris and we went to this auction just for fun and suddenly I saw these chairs and you can't believe them I bought them seven Euro the chair don't tell it it was really amazing this house I bought it 20 years ago I wanted to be in the eighth hour this mall because as I told you my grandfather used to be not very far from here and for me as a child Paris was like the Wonderland and I was always attracted by this part of Paris which is near Park mosul which is really the osmanian part of Paris so 20 years ago I was looking for apartment I was expecting my sixth child so we need to be to have a bigger house and also linked to my family was my job and I wanted to have a space in my flat to work I always wanted to be to be able to be at home so it was challenging to find a place where I could have a big place big room to put my showroom which were a little bit separated from the family part of the flat so when I visited this flat I really had what we call a good food or and I fall in love with um with all the details which are part of the structure of this flat um as well as the ceilings as the doors the windows it's a typical osmanian flat which means that when you have you have the entrance and a big Corridor at the beginning you have all the rooms for entertaining big rooms um first one dining room looking on the courtyard which is very typical osmania and then the salon the sitting room which is a double which used to be a double sitting rooms looking in the street than all the bedrooms and at the very far end of the corridor the kitchen because at the time you had plenty of mates which were helping so I know a lot of people in Paris now are moving the kitchen next to the dining room I didn't do that I keep all my bedrooms because I need all these bedrooms and I keep the kitchen at the very far of the corridor so it's true that when we have dinners we run in the corridor to bring the things that's I but I I find it nice to maintain it as it was what I think is very important when you are designing when you are decorating a place is to maintain the atmosphere the historical atmosphere and to bring your identity and a little bit of modernity so I hate when it's too much Deco Machi obvious I love when it's a little bit borderline and so the colors that I have chosen for instance in the sitting room it was 20 years ago that I choose this color it was I wanted to find something which were a little bit of traditional but also modern not too not too invasive but still there so it's always this balance between um doing something which is really uh new and keep the spirit of the of the space the inspiration is is really very spontaneous it's a lot of also of pieces of furniture carpets that I find and I fall in love with them so I just I think when each piece has its own identity and is Beautiful Everything can be mixed together there are no rules okay so let's go in the rest of the house so here it's my big Corridor it's also something I really loved When I visit this house because it's very rare to have such a large Corridor in the Osman buildings really they are much more narrow and they are very dark what is nice here is that you have this window at the end the square window because I am the last building of the street and that's why I have this light coming in which is very raw so here you see the stripes tribes is like being in the in the forest in a forest of Stripes here I have these two Furniture which are very convenient to put all the Portland and tablecloths and you know candles and all what you need to dress a table this big uh maps of Paris I found them in the Attic in the countryside and we decided to paint the frame we did that when we were young married and it's you see there are some addresses and Roads and all these roads where roads where we used to live or where our grandparents were living or where we meet or where was our school so they all have a little meaning so it was really fun it's a little clander yeah I would say so these are two gravier of Italian houses but the fun little thing is that the frame I made it it was 30 years ago when I was doing as I told you my Marvel on frames on Portland on walls everywhere so now I show you my bedroom I wanted to have something very warm very intimate so nothing better than booting Fabrics on the wall because it's always bring it's cut also the louds it's nice this is a piafra fabric it's an inspiration of this 18th century 17th century even patterns this pink red I find it very warm um I have combine this quad geometric pattern with this brachany fabric it's one of my favorite one when I was not even married I thought always one day when I will have a house I will have the grocer pattern and this is a crocodile it's really this person Fabrics which I absolutely adore so for the back of the bed I made this a bit Baroque um peace [Music] on the curtains are the same fabric as this in fact these used to be some curtains that I had in my first flat just young married and I bring them here in my bedroom and as I have three pairs of curtains I decided to make a baldaca the story of this balaka is fun because this iron piece was at the beginning not at all mean to be a balaka I did it for the Figaro the magazine figuero they had a subject where they asked to design us go to the free market in satwa buy things and transform them and that's what I did so this was a flat iron piece it used to be this iron decoration on the outdoor of the windows in old houses so I took them it and asked to my iron maker man to do this balderca and I put my third curtain to have a well Decker so it ends like this so these are really my very iconic first Fabrics I break my burst to buy them when I was young married because it was breaking news very expensive so but you know for me Fabrics is so important and you see they deserve because they are 35 years old and still so beautiful so here again we are on the street so we have the view on the balcony in springtime you have a lot of green so it's nice because it brings a little bit of intimity don't have the neighbors in front of your eyes um on the floor as again I wanted to have something warm I put a wall to wall carpet so you have a lot of shades of colors which is uh interesting the two armchairs uh armchairs of uh with Philip with this fish pattern here with some more umpire silk fabric um the chimney is very cute of course it's part of the flat it was already there since ever and ever with this lovely funny work of financials here the mirror also authentic mirror was here already uh besides the mirror I have these two applique this may come I bought them in flu Market but they may come from a church this is a typical Church pieces uh on the top here you have a little family of gravier or showing some um Egyptian landscape it's not it's a member of my first two years of uh young married we were living in Alexandria and spending a lot of time in the antique there were some antique shops and so we bought a lot of things and so it's all a story about Egypt about the pharaohonic period typical you know this is a view of Cairo here you have some battles of Napoleon period some faronic view here you can see Napoleon when he did his campaign in in Egypt and this is a map and we were living in Alexandria on the Mediterranean sea to stay in Egypt this very old carpet a little bit very very old but it's also part of my heart because it's I think the first one of the first thing we bought also we invest it's a very old carpet we bought it to the old woman who was selling this so as it's so older we keep it on the bed for the lamb here we have this n-class it's Austrian lamp with the starting shade a little bit strange but you know I'm not afraid to mix things here books books and books because you know it's important to have your books with you even when everything is on internet we need books um on this furniture is a a gift of my mother it's called a souvenir because you have one two three four five six seven draws like the seven days of the week it's an empire style with a column no it has a lovely work of bronze and off top a sleeping woman so here we create this Library um because this was a door initially going to the dining room so we wanted to make it too close it to really separate the the bedroom from the from the dining room we painted dark red in the design and we keep the white um frame around it's always nice to have dark shelves I think here we arrive on this piece of furniture it was a gift for my husband um it's called it's services and it's very very convenient to hide the whole mess that you can put here so you know it's better to close it I when I when I'm here I think it's very warm and happy and I feel when you come here you know immediately that you are in Paris you see I hate these Flats where for instance people will destroy every old thing because they want to have a modern thing or this when you don't know if you are in New York or in Madrid or I don't know where so I think it's really important to feel the identity and I love Paris and so when you arrive here you can immediately see that you are in osmanian flat um and I think you feel you feel comfortable you have big so far and and you you can you know you can really sit well and don't think that you are this you know disturbing something destroying something it's it's a happy family uh house [Music] so here we have the heater heighted heater with the stripes black and white the map of Paris very important when you go out to be able to show it was important before the iPhone now we don't use it anymore but okay so now we are in the kitchen uh when we arrive it was very simple uh this very strange size of kitchen I couldn't say what geometric pattern it is there are one two three four five six seven um it's also something that you will see very often in the osmanian building because it's really the end of the building being linked with the next one so um I wanted to have two space in the kitchen one space where we could have a dinner as you have noticed we are here very far from the dining room so I must admit that even if I love lovely tables I will not have all my meals in the dining room but a lot here when we are just family um so I wanted to have a nice space where you could have uh breakfast lunch dinner when you don't have a dinner guest or when it's such a Sunday lunch um so we cut it the room with this um a piece of furniture everything was made by order by a Belgian company um we wanted to keep something traditional look because again I think it's important to to respect the style of the construction but we bring some architectural Elements which make it more interesting so all these pieces we have added them because it was really a very simple there was no nothing on the top no all this Cornish didn't exist um the doors were very simple so we added all the woodwork here on this door also in order to make the room um sophisticated and we played with all these furniture with this doors which some are plain some are with glass so that you can see inside and we put some lighting so that you know when you have lovely like glasses it's nice it's it's it's open a little bit The View so we played with these different panels and here you see you have the lattice uh which make it less plain than if it were completely uh White I wanted to warm this room and so I chose this very deep red um like um brownie red and I wanted to give it a little bit of a country style so on the floor I put this Stone it's um uh really in the old way of cutting the stone so very irregular like you have it so I create this uh fairly Bunch very convenient because you can put lots of things inside and it reminds me really easy Austrian Style with this way of cutting the wood very Baroque and the Stag on top which are also reminding a little bit country mountains the lamps are more modern I like the contrast with this shiny silver lamps the table is a very rustical country table with a bag branch in black painted so it's a play of white black and red and here you have a lovely painting that of a friend who is painting on very old papers you know that he find a rubbish paper and he makes his very interesting work of pastel aquarel painting with inspiration of antique uh stories so here it's really the technical part of the kitchen where you work so there is a view on the courtyard and for the plant Hawaii I use some what we call La Pierre blood the Belgium it's blue stone of Belgium I like because it's very natural and you have a lot of motif on the stone and for the wall here behind the heater I have some delish black delish very rustical here you can see my cash pose always important you can put flowers but you can put also all the kitchen things so here it's again this idea of Countryside it's really this buffet that you have in the old kitchen where you can you know storage a lot of things and I like it because it's uh it's it's like nearly like a Furniture like an old furniture and it makes a link between the Tactical part and this part which is more like a little let's say dining room um here on the table I put my Verdugo collection with this lovely red which reminds the the walls here we have we'll have a dinner with a little soup with a carrot plate um these are the typical little pieces to put it where it used to be to put the carafe but it can be used for butter for whatever the little flowers again the goblets which can be used for water or whatever my cookie stuff for bread so this is very traditional old shape of the limerge porcelain uh you I use it also sometimes to do some bouquet some Merlot bouquet here it's convenient for bread and here's this little teacup Japanese tea cup which is of course with little candle waiting to be light up because even a little dinner with only uh everyday dinner I like to light a bullet candle it makes a very common dinner being a little bit special so that's and here my Murano Marie brondolini glasses I love so ready for a little family dinner and here some branches you know again I was at the countryside this weekend so poof we cut some branches and we have a little bit of nature arriving in the city which is quite important when you are living in Paris so this home is a lot of memory of my family house with six children my heart my business mixing both things sometimes it happened funny things because you know when I had my clients coming here my designers as I'm in the luxury part it was very more high-end people used to very sophisticated things so we were I remember we were in the uh in the showroom doing my my show with this clients and suddenly a baby arrive and say mommy I'm finished so it was always this mix of my business which is really part of my life and that I love my children grew up in the Portland you know the and and this family life so really this mix which is also very important because as I say a tabletop is really has a lot of to do with the price private life of everyone and the other Viva and you know the entertaining and the food the cooking so it's not only decoration it's not only colors and patterns it's a lot more so now we are at the end and I show you my house where we are having lovely time with a family where I used to work also during 20 years a big space of inspiration here I hope you enjoy I enjoy to share with you my little secrets and my passion as you may have guessed passion of Terror the enjoyment of being really part of the old Couture De La Table you know sharing a lot of evil francaise with you goodbye thanks for watching for more homeworthy content be sure to like And subscribe

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Length: 75min 20sec (4520 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 25 2023