An Attic Apartment

This attic apartment located in Bordeaux’s city center was meticulously redeveloped to suit the refined tastes of the family who inhabits it. Our intervention – technical upgrading, bespoke fixtures and fittings, and arrangement of furniture and artworks – combined different senses of scale and types of expertise.
The patio provides an ample amount of lighting to the apartment, and it also constitutes a separation between the double living room and office on one side and the bedrooms of the parents and their daughter on the other. The materials (parquet flooring, enameled lava and brass details) were chosen in a monochrome honeyed tint to create a comfortable and sophisticated atmosphere throughout the apartment. The edge-to-edge hardwood flooring unifies the apartment’s various rooms. Atelier Cambium custom-designed all the fixtures and fittings (closets, bathroom, kitchen, joinery, etc.).
The existing apartment was entirely resurfaced, bringing it to the state of a pristine empty shell. The main facade on the street side was renovated, while the interiors were newly insulated (roof and between the joists), an oak parquet floor was installed, and the joinery was replaced by sliding bay windows with a minimalist design. Lastly, a new air conditioning and heating system was installed.
The restricted access to the site proved the most difficult aspect of this project, requiring the use of cranes to move the larger elements. The low ceiling height under the eaves also made it hard to install the climate control systems, but in the end, we were able to conceal them fully.