A Pint-Sized Parisian Apartment Is Transformed Into a Refined Pied-à-Terre

When Marion Mouny and Katia Naouri of architecture studio MMNK first cast eyes on this a 592-square-foot courtyard apartment tucked off a major thoroughfare in Paris’s well-heeled Marais district, it suffered from lack of light, humidity damage, and a convoluted floor plan. The owners—four siblings dispersed across Europe and Asia—had commissioned the firm to rehabilitate the space into a comfortable place where they could stay while visiting family in their hometown.