Danish designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard has put in up to date furnishings inside a 14th-century townhouse within the south of France, turning it right into a guesthouse for homeware model Vipp.
The Vipp Townhouse is situated in Lagrasse, a village within the Corbières area usually named as one of many prettiest locations in France.
Mølsgaard’s renovation sees the centuries-old home up to date with assertion items together with a purple marble bathe, a sculptural staircase and an aluminium kitchen.
It turns into the twelfth guesthouse for Vipp, because the Danish homeware model continues its enlargement into the hospitality sector.
As with different Vipp guesthouses, the inside design centres across the model’s product vary. Different components had been chosen by Mølsgaard to mirror the constructing’s historical past and setting.
“We appeared to a targeted set of supplies: wooden, chrome steel, marble, plastered partitions and coarse pebble flooring,” stated the Copenhagen-based designer.
“The concept was to create a way of calm and coherence, a house that respects its environment and lets the historical past of the house kind the muse of design.”
Mølsgaard started by reorganising the constructing structure, creating three flooring that every have their very own character.
The bottom ground, which faces the city sq., serves as a reception and lounge house. The primary ground is now the kitchen and eating room, backing onto a roof terrace, whereas a bed room occupies the uppermost ground.
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“From the very first second I stepped into this house, it was clear that the kitchen belonged on the primary ground, changing into the guts of the home,” stated the designer.
“I think about friends bringing recent produce from the sq.’s market to the kitchen for preparation after which stepping out onto the terrace to dine.”
The brand new staircase is the showpiece of the bottom ground house. This cast-concrete zigzag cantilevers out from the wall, fronted by a geometrical display screen crafted by native metalsmith Alejandro Berconsky.
“The staircase acts as a sculptural, connecting component, virtually like an built-in artwork piece, tying the three ranges of the home collectively whereas paying tribute to native craftsmanship,” stated Mølsgaard.
The primary ground was deliberate round Vipp’s V3 kitchen island, which mixes anodised aluminium fronts with a slender floor of chrome steel.
Additionally on this ground, a round eating desk is accompanied by a particular version of the Vipp Swivel chair, upholstered in a {custom} Pierre Frey cloth that matches the green-painted home windows.
For the bed room suite, Mølsgaard added a custom-designed timber mattress. The spherical marble bathe tray supplies the focus, with a taller stone slab offering house for toiletries.
In a refined nod to the encircling architectural heritage, partitions all through the home are painted in a heat white matched to the precise shade of the close by Lagrasse Abbey.
Bogs and storage areas are neatly hidden away, behind wood partitions on the bottom ground and mirrored doorways within the bed room.
“There’s a lot mirror work in outdated French buildings,” stated Mølsgaard. “I liked the concept of utilizing mirrors not only for ornament, however as a ravishing option to cover the extra sensible components.”
Vipp is greatest referred to as the producer of the ever present pedal bin, discovered in lots of Scandinavian properties.
After increasing into furnishings, the model opened its first guesthouse, the Vipp Shelter at Lake Immeln in Sweden, in 2014.
Its portfolio now features a vary of properties in gorgeous areas, together with southern Italy, Tasmania, Mexico’s Todos Santos and Denmark’s Thy Nationwide Park. These guesthouses embody each new-build buildings and renovations.
In keeping with Kasper Egelund, CEO of VIPP and the grandson of firm founder Holger Nielsen, this newest addition “provides one thing actually totally different from our earlier locations”.
“The transformation of Vipp Townhouse acts as a bridge between the historic reminiscence of this constructing and its future, as a cultural getaway within the village of Lagrasse, and as a brand new chapter in Vipp’s guesthouse story,” he stated.
The images is courtesy of Vipp.
