{"id":2700,"date":"2024-04-17T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2024\/04\/17\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-salon-style-kitchen-dining-room-for-a-historic-paris-apartment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T22:40:15","slug":"kitchen-of-the-week-a-salon-style-kitchen-dining-room-for-a-historic-paris-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-salon-style-kitchen-dining-room-for-a-historic-paris-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"La cuisine de la semaine : Une cuisine\/salle \u00e0 manger de style salon pour un appartement historique \u00e0 Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If most kitchens are dressed in the design equivalent of everyday wear, Philippe Harden\u2019s T1 project qualifies as black tie. The Paris architect was commissioned by an old friend to update his childhood home in a stately turn-of-the-19th-century apartment building in the Marais, original details worse for wear but intact.<\/p>\n

Wanting a sympathetic top-to-bottom refresh, Harden\u2019s clients\u2014he has a web agency, she works for the French ministry\u2014asked Harden to rethink the layout, opening up spaces and creating \u201cfluid new connections and perspectives.\u201d In response, Harden created a combination cook space\/dining area as the center of the action in what had been a very grand bedroom\u2014and turned the original kitchen into a bedroom.<\/p>\n

The space gracefully combines new cabinetry and appliances amid the existing carvings and ceiling friezes. Harden also cast the room in a surprisingly dark and glamorous palette.<\/p>\n

Is it time for us all to consider shades of brown, black, and white in our kitchens? See what you think.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Philippe Harden Architecture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


Above: An island divides the kitchen from the dining area in the front. \u201cMost of original details have been preserved but the accesses to the room changed,\u201d explains Harden. \u201cThe original entry is now the fridge and coffee niche [shown left].\u201d To make the kitchen more salon-like, Harden avoided over-the-counter cabinets, inserted a picture rail, and paired the induction cooktop with an out-of-sight downdraft vent. 
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Above: The cabinet fronts and gallery shelf are American elm with a dark stain and \u201ca very resistant finish,\u201d supplied by French brand <\/span>Oberflex
\n. The veined countertops are Brazilian <\/span>Breccia Imperiale Quarzite
\n from Antolini,  \u201charder wearing than marble and ideal for kitchens,\u201d says Harden. <\/span> <\/p>\n

The architect also had a hand in the styling: The framed photographs are his own, taken at the Teatro Reggio in Torinom Italy. We like seeing art and table lamps in the kitchen: check out <\/span>The New Art Gallery. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Above: Harden artfully transformed the aforementioned original entry into the fridge and coffee station\u2014while preserving the intricately carved doorframe and surrounding wainscotting. The kitchen has all mod cons: a microwave is hidden on the sink side of the island.
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Above: Harden says the room was originally entirely dark\u2014too dark, so it took some convincing for his clients to come around to his proposed moody scheme: to accentuate the warmth of the historic detailing, he painted the walls brown (RAL 9003\/Gris Erevan) offset by a white ceiling (Little Greene\u2019s Attic II) and pale floor, \u201cto reflect daylight and make a contrast.\u201d <\/p>\n

The existing floor had been parquet that was beyond rescuing. Harden campaigned for an easy-to-clean stone floor, but went with more affordable tiles from Cotto D\u2019este in \u201ca really realistic Italian ceramic that looks like real stone.\u201d The paneled door, a new addition, leads to a bedroom that was originally the kitchen; there\u2019s a large courtyard outside the French doors.<\/p>\n


Above: In the dining area, a Silas Table \u00e0 Manger by Dutch workshop Woood is surrounded by vintage Galvanitas chairs (\u20ac133.33 each from Paris midcentury dealer Cartel de Belleville). The hanging lights are Gubi brass Multi-Lite Pendants by Louis Weisdorf.
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Above: Original paneled doors lead to the front hall. The stool is a Harden prototype.,<\/p>\n

The room originally had stained glass windows that were in bad condition. \u201cThey were the price we had to pay,\u201d says Harden. \u201cIt was essential to be able to see the outside and preserve the room from the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n


Above: A Serax Papier M\u00e2ch\u00e9 Flower Pot holds bay leaf branches\u2014see more of the Serax line in our Trend Alert: Papier M\u00e2ch\u00e9 in Shades of Pale.
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Above: The front hall opens to the living room on the left and the kitchen\/dining area. The Wever & Ducr\u00e9 Brass Sconce is a favorite of Harden\u2019s; it\u2019s a midcentury Belgian design from Light and City Paris; \u20ac496. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always try to design fluid spaces with different ways to enter a room and perspectives on the other rooms,\u201d says Harden. Here are three more of his projects:<\/p>\n