In terms of 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 building (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 learning underneath Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and dealing underneath the the path of Vladimir Bodiansky and Charlotte Perriand within the studio Le Corbusier in 1947. (She additionally was accountable, partly, for the main points on Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille.) The home, a villa situated 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, wished to color and modify the toilet 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 strange home,” says Rosalie.
Moderately than starting work immediately, Rosalie and Léa urged a interval of analysis into the home and its architect within the archives. As they dove into the analysis, they uncovered an increasing number of 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 hearth changed with a range. The purchasers’ purpose was to regularly 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 hearth, rest room, and staircase in addition to the built-in furnishings authentic to the home. Be part of us for a go searching.
Images by Mary Gaudin for RREEL.
