{"id":2888,"date":"2025-06-07T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/06\/07\/required-reading-petite-apartment-inspiration-from-french-interior-designer-marianne-evennou\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:30:28","slug":"required-reading-petite-apartment-inspiration-from-french-interior-designer-marianne-evennou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/required-reading-petite-apartment-inspiration-from-french-interior-designer-marianne-evennou\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading: Petite Apartment Inspiration from French Interior Designer Marianne Evennou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interior designer Marianne Evennou, our French doyenne of color, composition, and small-space living, has just published her first book.<\/p>\n

Un Int\u00e9rieur \u00e0 Soi<\/em> (loose translation: \u201cA Place of One\u2019s Own\u201d) is a compendium of her signature moves\u2014interior windows, exposed beams, duo-toned walls, bonbon box-sized kitchens, and black Bakelite light switches\u2014that dazzle us over and over.<\/p>\n

Marianne may have go-to design tricks but she applies them with a freshness and excitement every time. Today, we\u2019re spotlighting a favorite Paris apartment for a client named Sabine, an artist and businesswoman in her forties who Marianne describes as having \u201cune id\u00e9e \u00e0 la minute.\u201d At each of their preliminary meetings, Sabine arrived with macarons from Ladur\u00e9e and their \u201csoft but not cutesy colors: pale pink, almond green, and pastel blue\u201d became the starting point for the makeover:  \u201cluxurious and carefree,\u201d it\u2019s also a pocket apartment that, as Marianne puts it, \u201chas all the big stuff.\u201d Join us for a tour.<\/p>\n

Photography by Gre\u0301gory Timsit, courtesy of \u00c9ditions de La Martini\u00e8re.<\/p>\n


Above: Set in an 18th century building in the Marais, the 35-square-meter (approximately 376-square-foot) apartment was completely reorganized: \u201cwe removed all the small, dark rooms to open the kitchen and bedroom to the living room thanks to interior windows.\u201d <\/p>\n

The entry, shown here, has a wainscot patterned with Antoinette Poisson Buisson de Roses wallpaper and a bleached parquet floor with radiant heat. Marianne puts tight quarters to work: the pink tiled floor defines the kitchen, and the bedroom is on the other side of the glazed wall. Scroll to the end for the updated floor plan.<\/p>\n


Above: A triptych collage by artist Franck Evennou, Marianne\u2019s husband and a frequent contributor to her projects, hangs over a linen-upholstered bench with a pleated skirt. The apartment\u2019s \u201cunderpinning of black,\u201d Marianne says, keeps it from \u201cfalling into sentimentality.\u201d Serax makes the low steel Black Coffee Tables.,

Above: The two-color walls are painted in a gray called Bauhaus and L\u00e9ger Cumulus, a pale blue, both from Ressource, a French line with a showroom in New York\u2019s D&D Building. Marianne describes the Antoinette Poisson wallpaper and fabric, including these Cologne linen cushions, as having \u201ca revisited 18th century spirit.\u201d In the US, John Derian carries the company\u2019s designs.
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Above: Full-length curtains of a heavy Pierre Frey linen called Craft (in Armande edged in black) frame French doors that open to a window box planted with moss and ferns.
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Above: A half-glazed wall divides the kitchen from the dining area. The painting is by Franck Evennou. Note the black light switches by THPG of Germany.,

Above: The dining table, a Finnish classic by Ilmari Tapiovaara, and the 1940s Polish chair by Wladyslaw Wincze and Olgierd Szlekys were sourced from online vintage marketplace Selency.  The fabric globe light is one of a pair from Paris concept store Mona Market.
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Above: Marianne designed the kitchen\u2019s carpet of \u201ccandy pink\u201d Mosaic del Sur cement tiles. Just right for a solo occupant who often eats out, the space has a compact oven by Candy over a tiny fridge.
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Above: Marble counters rise to form a ledge. The walls with built-in shelves are painted in a powder pink from Ressource.
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Above: \u201cEven if it has no window to the outside, this room still has a view,\u201d says Marianne of the lone bedroom, which has pale blue linen curtains should Sabine want to enclose the space.,

Above: A pastel apartment doesn\u2019t require a frilly bed: Marianne layered it in a black and white gridwork. The two-armed ceiling light is by Remodelista favorite Wo & W\u00e9.
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Above: The bedroom opens to Sabine\u2019s dressing area (with two wardrobes) and bathroom, unified by the same custom tiles that set off the kitchen.
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Above: Mosaic del Sur zelliges and pink trellis-patterned tiles are \u201csoberly balanced by black,\u201d notes Marianne. The snake-patterned eau-de-toilette is from Officine Universelle Buly. <\/p>\n

Plattegrond<\/h3>\n


Above: Marianne\u2019s approach to tiny apartment living:\u201dI design each space like a tailor-made garment\u201d and \u201cnever neglect the smallest square centimeter.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Book<\/h3>\n

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Above: Un Int\u00e9rieur \u00e0 Soi, \u20ac38, is available from publisher \u00c9ditions de La Martini\u00e8re and booksellers throughout Europe.
\n  Follow Marianne on Instagram @marianneevennou.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Three more Marianne Evennou projects:<\/p>\n

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  • The Ultimate Starter Apartment in Paris<\/li>\n
  • An Inventive, Postage Stamp-Sized Apartment in the Center of Paris<\/li>\n
  • 12 Small-Space Design Ideas for Compact Quarters<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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