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Colors and vintage furniture in the spotlight in this architect's apartment

Housed in a beautiful 19th building on rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a stone's throw from Place Bellecour, the architect Nathalie Rives immediately set her sights on this apartment in rent where "everything is there". “The base is perfect, I only have colors to put! ". And color, for Nathalie, is important! “Living in color is sumptuous. Because a tint can make several colors appear in a day. I put colors in an apartment like for a painting. And I always put it where you least expect it. Hence, the pink of the doors in the entrance, CQFD.
“In the kitchen, the terracotta color was already there. But I didn't want to change it. I love this huge, open kitchen because I hate cooking alone. There is a very Italian side to us with my three teenagers and all the friends who pass. »
To reassure the owners, worried about the directions she was taking in terms of renovating the apartment, she explains to them like a sesame that she is going to use paints from the Argile or Farrow & Ball. His taste and his glibness do the rest. Here are the shades Treron in the living room, Inchyra Blue in the bedroom and Oval Room Blue at the end of the hallway…

Colors and vintage furniture in the spotlight in this architect's apartment

The sublime marble fireplaces also take part in the show: marsala in the kitchen, plum in the living room. It's a festival. The other festival is that of the many vintage pieces that inhabit the space. That's Nathalie's gallerist cap. They respond to Nathalie's creations, like this imposing coffee table she designed for her large living room. That is his creative hat. Good news for the Parisians who would be jealous of the Lyonnais: she has decided to return “home”, to Paris, to open an identical place which would serve as much as a gallery as an architect’s office. His globetrotter cap is there.

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