Memories Fade: Historic Paris Apartment Gets Gradient | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - Feed https://dornob.com Architecture, Interior and Furniture Design Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Memories Fade: Historic Paris Apartment Gets Gradient https://dornob.com/memories-fade-historic-paris-apartment-gets-gradient/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:00:25 +0000 http://dornob.com/?p=41102 What visuals would you associate with a historic Paris apartment? Chances are, there will be some dark woodwork, French doors, heavy textiles and white marble in your mental conjurations, all of which are present in this beautiful duplex apartment on Place de Colombie. But designer Ramy Fischler has taken these and other historic elements and […]

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What visuals would you associate with a historic Paris apartment? Chances are, there will be some dark woodwork, French doors, heavy textiles and white marble in your mental conjurations, all of which are present in this beautiful duplex apartment on Place de Colombie. But designer Ramy Fischler has taken these and other historic elements and layered over them with modern touches in this pied-à-terre, from a gradient of white epoxy paint downstairs to heavy curtains made of lacquered plaster.

Paris apartment by Ramy Fischler dining room
Paris apartment by Ramy Fischler gradient walls

The apartment is located in the 1930s Art Deco residential complex known as the Walter Buildings, and bears many of its original features. The designer wanted to bring the interiors into the present day, avoiding a fully preserved, museum-like feel, but without sacrificing the sense of history imparted by the parquet de Versailles woodwork, wrought iron stair railing and other features.

Paris apartment by Ramy Fischler marble vanity
Paris apartment by Ramy Fischler unusual curtains

The custom white epoxy paint fades from full coverage at the pure-white ceiling to whitewash at the mid-level, leaving the original wood exposed at the bottom to blend with the parquet floor. Baroque patterns have been incorporated in a modern way, printed in large scale onto furniture surfaces. The dramatic white curtains evoke more traditional textiles, but with an unexpected stiffness and gloss. The corridor and kitchen feel downright futuristic with curving white panels and built-in lighting around the line of the ceiling.

Paris apartment by Ramy Fischler curving built in storage

“The Place de Columbie apartment is the result of a group of ideas and talents coming together as one,” says Fischler. “For me, designing ana portent or house is like running a research laboratory, during which different expertise comes together in order to produce a singular piece that is the result of a collaborative process.”

About the architect:

“Ramy Fischler, a Belgian designer based in Paris, has developed an eclectic creative practice. He is graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle ENSCI-Les Ateliers, and laureate of the Académie de France in Rome in 2010. He joined the Villa Médicis where he considered, in situ, how visitors and artists are received within this legendary place, and became interested in the history of furniture and their association with power. Research that gave rise to several exhibits in Italy and Paris. Fascinated by the tension between history, space and furniture, Ramy Fischler created his own agency, RF Studio, in 2011. Among his most recent projects, the Twitter France headquarter, the National Gallery Cafe in London, the community kitchen restaurant Refettorio Paris in collaboration with the artist JR and Encore Heureux architect and the 5-star hotel on the Champs-Elysées Avenue.”

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