Architect Pauline Percheron, primarily based simply outdoors Montpellier in Saint-Georges-d’Orques, was tasked with a fragile stability: to modernize and develop a historic maison de maître with out dropping its soul. Located in a protected space, the house—a major home and small outbuilding—had been partially renovated 15 years prior. Its homeowners, now empty nesters, wished to reimagine it as a heat, open retreat the place their grown youngsters and future grandchildren may collect. The problem was to unify the fragmented floor ground and carve out beneficiant, light-filled residing areas inside the house’s modest 120 sq. meters.
A graduate of La Cambre in Brussels and having studied in Paris-Belleville, Percheron brings a assured sensibility to her work—anchored in context, proportion, and respect for historical past. Having left Paris 5 years in the past to ascertain her personal apply within the south of France, she approaches renovation as an act of continuity slightly than distinction. On this challenge, she preserved the home’s defining particulars—the grand staircase, the plaster moldings—whereas subtly rethinking its volumes to accommodate trendy life, attaining a considerate dialogue between previous and current.
Images by Mary Gaudin for Pauline Percheron.
