Harnessing soft whites and gently curving plaster forms, interior designer Johanna Amatoury has brought a holiday-house feel to this apartment in the peaceful Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
The duplex belongs to a couple who work in real estate and their three young children ? a globetrotting family with a particular love for the Greek islands.
Interior designer Johanna Amatoury has renovated a Paris duplex
Amatoury designed their apartment as a homage to the region's vernacular architecture.
"Because of their love for this part of the world, we arrived in this apartment and imagined a holiday house feeling, using warm and textural materials ? very unlike typical Parisian apartments," she told Dezeen.
"We worked with mineral materials, textures and raw colours in the apartment to provide depth and achieve the desired ambience." Curving plaster-covered surfaces feature heavily in the entryway
The design of the home was also shaped by its layout, arranged over the ground and first floors of a large 1980s building that opens onto a small garden.
This encouraged Amatoury to model the apartment on a single-family house.
The design draws on the vernacular architecture of the Greek islands
"We wanted to imagine it as a house, to create a more outside-in atmosphere, increasing all the size of the windows," she said.
"The apartment is on the garden level, so my guideline was to open as much as possible to the outside and the planting there.&quo...