Gaetano Pesce, Appartamento a Parigi, Avenue Foch, Paris, France, 1986

The apartment is located in an Art Deco building of the year thirty on Avenue Foch in Paris, near the Arc de Triomphe. Gaetano Pesce has renovated and furnished the apartment for Marc Andre Hubin.
The purpose of Pesce was to reorganize the space in a simple way, giving homogeneity to the apartment, both vertically and horizontally through a decomposition of the space itself:
Pesce gave power to the design by balance, shape, colour and function. The colours used are red, yellow, blue and green: they are strong and conflicting. Table legs are tilted inward with different angles.

The door handles have unusual shapes and are positioned at different heights. The balustrade of the mezzanine consist of crooked props, each of them topped by a lighted ball of a different colour. At the bottom of the walls there’s a plinth in dark marble, which is in contrast with the travertine in the living room. The wall of the furniture in the bedroom is made out of lead, in this way it’s linked with the roofs of Paris. He tries to give objects a form that creates a bond with the place where they are made.

References:

Brent Lewis at www.area-arch.it

Lorenzo Corsini at www.gaetanopesce.com

Cohen, E. Gaetano Pesce. Interior Design, 77.

Vanlaethem, F. (1989). Gaetano Pesce: architecture, design, art. Rizzoli International Publications.