Bright apartment in Paris, 120 m2
The owner of this Parisian apartment, Jean-Christophe Om, is in no hurry to finish the repair once and for all: he is one of those people who like inconstancy.
INTERIOR AUGUST 22, 2019 IEN PHILLIPS
In the house of Jean-Christophe Om, things in one place do not stay long. “There is nothing permanent here,” he says. - I never put an end to it. Consider this my motto. ” For him, his own home is a kind of laboratory where he hones his professional skills. “I can’t take my home apart from work,” says Oma, who specializes in organizing events for luxury brands. He once worked for Louis Vuitton under Marc Jacobs, and now he has his own company, which he - with his eternal desire for change - has recently given a new name: Singular.
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Jean-Christophe Om in the living room. Sofa by DC105B designed by Vincenzo de Cotiisa for Progetto Domestico.
Om’s clients include Celine, Dior and Boucheron, and if you ask him about his favorite projects, he will certainly remember how he flooded the Paris Printemps department store with live sheep and threw a bunch of finely chopped paper over John Galliano’s boutique. Sometimes parts of these crazy installations move to his house - that’s how a pink stool appeared in the hallway: it was, in fact, invented specifically for dinner, which was given by one of the Parisian fashion brands.
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Living room. Design sofa DC105B by Vincenzo de Cotiisa for Progetto Domestico; table with brass base - vintage; sculptures of cacti purchased at the Paris flea market.
The apartment in which Oma now lives is also unusual - in the 19th century a sorcerer lived here. And today, in order to get to the 120-meter space near Pigalle Square, you will first have to go along the long corridor, overcome the richly decorated doors to find another corridor - behind it is the entrance to the apartment.
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Stained glass windows have been preserved since the 19th century - from the time of the owner-sorcerer; vintage oak table designed by Marcel Gascoigne; carpet, Bleu de Fes.
Jean-Christophe says that he chose this place for his inherent special character: "This apartment does not look like anything, this is its charm." There are details typical of Parisian apartments - for example, a marble fireplace and stucco moldings, but there are also unique ones such as light lamps and stained-glass windows that look especially impressive on sunny days. “The apartment becomes like a small cathedral,” says the landlord. Another big plus was the quiet and green patio. “A stark contrast to the area itself, where it is not crowded,” he states. “The Pigalle neighborhood has become a very popular destination.”
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View of the kitchen and hallway. Vintage chair (right) designed by Tobia Scarpa; wooden stools, Pols Potten; countertops made of concrete.
When Oma just drove into the apartment, his main concern was to make the interior brighter. To do this, he cut a light in the hallway and put new, entirely glass doors into the courtyard. And at the same time I tried to erase the border between “inside” and “outside”, having bought several pots of plants in the living room. “These are my little jungle,” he says. “I like their“ hairlessness. ”
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A fragment of the kitchen. Green Vase, La Verrerie de Biot; ceramic vases designed by Mado Jolena; a brick resembling the letter M was made by Patricia Urquiola.
Among Ohm's talents is a very special sense of color. He painted the space between the entrance and the living room with paint of three different colors, for the rail on the bedroom wall he chose cornflower blue, and for the dining room - so light shade of blue that until you look closely, the room seems white. “Such trifles are important to me,” he says, not without pride.
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Bedroom. Pillows, The Conran Shop; silver painting by John Armleder; the big picture at the head is Ohm's work.
The rest of the interior was completely eclectic. Oma comes from the south, spent his childhood in Aix-en-Provence, and in the interior of the kitchen and bathroom there is a Mediterranean influence, though not French, but Greek. The drawing of window stained-glass windows was continued in numerous arches. And the furniture partially moved here from the old apartment: these are 1970s leather and brass chairs, once bought by Jean-Christophe at the Brussels flea market, and a large leather sofa designed by Vincenzo de Cotiisa. “It looks like a sculpture,” says Oma. “Such things are not afraid of time.”
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Fragment of the bedroom. On the 1970s table, a photo in a black frame by Mark Thurlan; in the background is the work of Jean-Christophe Om.
Another passion of our hero is ceramics. He keeps at home a collection of Not a Sports Club by Danish designer Frederick Nistrup-Larsen, who made clay replicas of popular sportswear.