Séparateurs pièces

Williamson and Hua aimed for an indoor-outdoor experience that could be enjoyed day and night.

The kitchen seamlessly connects the dining area to the living room.

A pair of Saarinen Tulip Armchairs offers front-row seats to an ever-changing view from the bedroom, which benefits from floor-to-ceiling windows.

Deep yellows can warm up any space. PPG Pittsburgh Paints' Wright Mustard (FLLW321) and Glidden’s Wheat Stalk (30YY 52/515) are two paint colors that complement contemporary midcentury-inspired interiors.

A Bertoia Bench in white oak supports the TV in the family room, while a 50th anniversary-edition Saarinen Tulip Table and Chairs provide a dark contrast to the cheery interiors. The vintage spun aluminum light fixture is also original to the house. Notice how the curtain, when open, can be neatly tucked into a nook beside the blue closets.

Instead of reaching to the ceiling, the walls stop around a foot shy, connecting the rooms.

The white marble table that sits behind the sofa had a past life as the former kitchen countertop. The ceiling moldings are original.

One of the apartment's two bathrooms is tucked behind a curtain adjacent to the kitchen.

A curtain slides across for privacy.

“The curtain allows the space to be opened up or closed off in all kinds of different ways, and gives it more warmth and better sound-proofing,” says Vibeke.

The new wooden staircase is steeper and therefore shorter and, as a result, doesn't create such a large a barrier between kitchen and living room.

Jones, USM, and French designer Marc Venot, a collaborator on the release, debuted the update at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Light flows into the compact kitchen and living area through walls of glass doors that lead to a walled patio.

Their former studio was an hour-long commute for Perron, so this new proximity is “life-changing.”

A basic storage closet is made into something special with this glossy pink folding door.

The common areas and bedrooms take up the fourth floor, and a spiral staircase ascends from the living area to a guest suite, which opens to a rooftop terrace.

At 193 square feet, this former maid’s quarters in the 18th arrondissement in Paris feels much larger than its postage-stamp size. Lots of sunlight, bold colors, and geometric shapes give it a punch of life, and light oak shelving delineates the bedroom area to create a nook-like feeling.