Saturday, May 31, 2025

La Maison Bernard: A 1959 French Villa by Edith Schreiber-Aujame Restored by RREEL

In relation to Parisian heritage restoration, architects Léa Cottreel and Rosalie Robert of RREEL are the newest studio du jour. With experience in nineteenth and twentieth century constructing development (they each maintain the DSA Structure and Heritage from Énsa-PB in Paris), the restoration of the 1959 Maison Bernard from Edith Schreiber-Aujame was the right match for RREEL. Franco-American architect Edith Schreiber-Aujame was born in Poland however lived in France after learning underneath Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer and dealing underneath the the course of Vladimir Bodiansky and Charlotte Perriand within the studio Le Corbusier in 1947. (She additionally was accountable, partly, for the small print on Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille.) The home, a villa situated in Maisons-Laffitte, France, is attribute of the villas of the Fifties, with an natural affect of Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand.

The shoppers, a younger couple seeking to begin a household, needed to color and modify the toilet and kitchen earlier than transferring in. They requested one other architect who, after seeing the home, referred them to RREEL: “It was apparent that the property was no bizarre home,” says Rosalie.

Relatively than starting work immediately, Rosalie and Léa prompt a interval of analysis into the home and its architect within the archives. As they dove into the analysis, they uncovered increasingly about Schreiber-Aujame and her unique idea for the villa. The home had been modified within the early 2000s with a terrace changed by a bed room and the hearth changed with a range. The shoppers’ goal was to step by step restore the home to its unique state phased over a number of years. RREEL start by restoring the kitchen and opening it into the lounge, in addition to restoring the hearth, lavatory, and staircase in addition to the built-in furnishings unique to the home. Be part of us for a go searching.

Images by Mary Gaudin for RREEL.

the house is located in the forested region of maisons laffitte, a 30 minute tr 17
Above: The home is situated within the forested area of Maisons-Laffitte, a 30 minute prepare experience northeast of Paris.
an exterior view of the 260 square meter concrete and glass building. 18
Above: An exterior view of the 260-square-meter concrete and glass constructing.
Above: “Lots of the particulars of the home are evocative of Le Corbusier’s Brutalist interval: the sunbreakers, the forged concrete, and the cap suspended over the doorway,” the architects clarify.
the architects restored the fireplace the living room. the marble floors, all o 20
Above: The architects restored the hearth the lounge. The marble flooring, all unique stonework, had been intensively cleaned and polished.
the floor to ceiling curtain offering privacy to the main living area was alrea 21
Above: The ground-to-ceiling curtain providing privateness to the principle dwelling space was already in place within the inside.
Above: “The shoppers needed an open kitchen. We prompt that they hold the present kitchen, however take away the doorways and create a gap within the picket cupboard. This passe-plat [serving hatch] might be opened to permit the eating room and kitchen to speak, or might be closed to revive the unique design,” says Rosalie. “It’s a compromise between up to date dwelling and heritage conservation.”

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