Petite and Punchy: Apartment in Paris by Pauline Borgia of L’Atelier Steve.

Pauline Borgia has completed a Parisian apartment in the 10th arrondissement. Designed for an idiosyncratic client—both an artist and doctor with atypical taste—the space offers inspiration without losing any of the energy of the neighbourhood. At just fifty-one square metres, the petite space packs a big personality.

It’s a niche the designer has carved out for herself since founding her architecture firm L’Atelier Steve in 2015. Each project is designed as a custom-made object whose set of lines reinvents space and proportion.

Pauline describes each project as a “liveable sculpture”—poetic and functional. She works with an ethos that space must be lived in an intimate and unique way, and that “architecture must capture all scales of projects to respond to practical and technical uses but also to re-create emotion,” she elaborates.

For this project, curves were utilised to reinvent the space, modelled like clay within the space to overcome existing constraints. Shaping flexible lines, the studio created a new volume that now accommodates a living room, two bedrooms and an office.

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For furniture and fixtures, she kept it classic. In the living room a vintage De Sede Terazza sofa is paired with a pink Moustache Editions chair, matching Kartell Colonna stool, vintage finds from the client’s own collection and waxed concrete floors. The kitchen adopts a utilitarian feel with a custom stainless steel bench and cupboards above in pastel purple, pink and blue, curving with the wall.

You can find the office beyond a cave-like opening off the bedroom, its muted burgundy and green hues contrasting with the crisp white walls and bright yellow USM dresser by the bed.

Diminutive in size but not much else, Pauline has reinvented this interior to offer both an oasis from and in tandem with the world just at its doorstep.

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[Images courtesy of Pauline Borgia. Photography by Oracle.]