Citrons et Huitres Oyster Bar by Marion Mailaender

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At 57 boulevard Rochechouart sits Citrons et Huîtres, the latest project from Marseille-based interior designer Marion Mailaender. An oyster and seafood bar in Pigalle, the interior is reminiscent of a local fishmonger storefront with a raw steel facade and floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto the streets of Paris.

Past the front door and its bronze oyster-shaped handle, the space is imagined below a vaulted ceiling of close to 5 metres. Mailaender reinterpreted a wave crashing along a sandy beach through a mosaic of pixelated ceramic stoneware.

A steel counter with a pearly sheen takes centre stage inside, accompanied by coral stools. The designer and architect drew inspiration from the history of the Pigalle neighbourhood—from local artists, and specifically Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose last studio was located in the same building at the oyster bar.

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So inspired by Renoir, the bar takes its name from his painting ‘Nature morte avec citrons et Huîtres’ a “piece of art that celebrates the most beautiful shellfish, classified as a national heritage of French art,” elaborates Mailaender.

For the walls, lined with ghostly blue coastal prints, Mailaender collaborated with her husband and artist Thomas Mailaender utilising cyanotype, a photographic printing process dating back to 1842. The result is an underwater effect akin to an aquarium that resonates with the neighbourhood’s artistic history.

Defined by old-world glamour, and a Paris of the past, Mailaender herself describes the space as “a statement of the old popular Paris.”