Relating to Parisian heritage restoration, architects Léa Cottreel and Rosalie Robert of RREEL are the newest studio du jour. With experience in nineteenth and twentieth century constructing development (they each maintain the DSA Structure and Heritage from Énsa-PB in Paris), the restoration of the 1959 Maison Bernard from Edith Schreiber-Aujame was the proper match for RREEL. Franco-American architect Edith Schreiber-Aujame was born in Poland however lived in France after finding out beneath Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and dealing beneath the the course of Vladimir Bodiansky and Charlotte Perriand within the studio Le Corbusier in 1947. (She additionally was accountable, partially, for the main points on Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille.) The home, a villa positioned in Maisons-Laffitte, France, is attribute of the villas of the Fifties, with an natural affect of Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand.
The purchasers, a younger couple seeking to begin a household, needed to color and modify the lavatory and kitchen earlier than shifting in. They requested one other architect who, after seeing the home, referred them to RREEL: “It was apparent that the property was no bizarre home,” says Rosalie.
Reasonably than starting work right away, Rosalie and Léa steered a interval of analysis into the home and its architect within the archives. As they dove into the analysis, they uncovered increasingly more about Schreiber-Aujame and her authentic idea for the villa. The home had been modified within the early 2000s with a terrace changed by a bed room and the fireside changed with a range. The purchasers’ goal was to step by step restore the home to its authentic state phased over a number of years. RREEL start by restoring the kitchen and opening it into the lounge, in addition to restoring the fireside, toilet, and staircase in addition to the built-in furnishings authentic to the home. Be part of us for a go searching.
Pictures by Mary Gaudin for RREEL.
