Architect Pauline Percheron, primarily based simply outdoors Montpellier in Saint-Georges-d’Orques, was tasked with a fragile steadiness: to modernize and increase a historic maison de maître with out shedding its soul. Located in a protected space, the house—a most important home and small outbuilding—had been partially renovated 15 years prior. Its homeowners, now empty nesters, needed 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 flooring and carve out beneficiant, light-filled dwelling areas throughout the dwelling’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 determine her personal apply within the south of France, she approaches renovation as an act of continuity moderately than distinction. On this venture, she preserved the home’s defining particulars—the grand staircase, the plaster moldings—whereas subtly rethinking its volumes to accommodate fashionable life, reaching a considerate dialogue between previous and current.
Images by Mary Gaudin for Pauline Percheron.
