Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin’s home is the new creative heart of their Paris design studio
first travelled to Port-Louis in Brittany three years ago, they had no intention of relocating. Both paper conservators known for resuscitating centuries-old printing techniques, they had been tipped off about a historic house sale by a customer at their rue Saint-Sabin store.
The living room, with a bespoke table by José Esteves, Louis XV-style Bergère chair and an 18th-century screen covered in domino paper and gouache prints © Ruth Ribeaucourt French East India Company porcelain is arranged on an indigo-dyed hemp tablecloth in the living room © Ruth RibeaucourtEngaging the skill of local carpenters, and with the help of an interior designer who they’d met during a shop project at the Palace of Versailles, they began stripping back the modern partitions to reinstate the room’s more palatial former scale.
Rather than overburdening the interior with their sprawling collection of antique furnishings and objects, the couple’s approach has been to pare things back. “It’s more about the soul of each piece, its history and patina,” explains Martin. “We’ve held onto these 18th-century objects that are very rustic, very simple and very beautiful.
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