On his patio are a table and chairs from the 1968 Ozoo collection by Marc Berthier for Roche Bobois.

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Prisma by Fabrice Berrux for Roche Bobois, $4,506. Living up to its name, the carpet sports a faceted motif rendered in 100 percent wool.

The entertainment space adds a pop of color with the Roche Bobois sofa

A Mah Jong sofa by Roche Bobois in the living room lends a colorful counterpoint to the custom water feature that runs alongside it.

Stephen Burks for Roche Bobois, steel frame for The Traveler chair European edition, 2014. (See the debut of the American Traveler chair at Dwell on Design Los Angeles in June, where Stephen will be the keynote speaker.)

The living area features Roche Bobois furnishings and a rug made from the farm’s sheep wool. Not pictured is the central fireplace built of locally quarried stone.

A comfy set of nine interlocking orange throw pillows from Roche Bobois fills the downstairs television room.

Majordome tables by Cédric Ragot for Roche Bobois. A chromed-steel frame finished in brass or gold supports walnut-veneered MDF tops. Available in four different bases, including the Pied X Double Plateau.

A far cry from minimalism, the renovated 900-square-foot Paris flat belonging to Nicolas Roche, a scion of the French furniture company Roche Bobois, is decked out with vivid hues and vintage furniture. A 1960s orange lamp by Luxus is suspended over the Warren Platner dining table and chairs. The 1950s rosewood glass cabinet is from Soriano. Pod Lens pendants by Ross Lovegrove for Luceplan hang from the ceiling.

An architect by profession, Roche removed as many partitions as he could when recasting the apartment’s interior, preferring transparency. He custom-made the red room divider from bungee cords.

Server cocktail table by Roberto Tapinassi and Maurizio Manzoni for Roche Bobois Green, bronze, and dark blue panels support the two clear panes of this all-glass piece.

The combination of steel and glass railings with aged oak treads, keeps with the flavor of the original home while introducing consistently sleek elements throughout. Downstairs is where the girls and their friends like to hang out, keeping the upstairs relatively clutter-free. A Scenario Modular sofa from Roche Bobois anchors the combined media room and library.

The living room furniture is from Roche Bobois.

Roche Bobois’s Agami sofa anchors the media room.

At the client’s request the kitchen contains neither upper cabinets (Shino can’t reach them) nor an oven (they only used the old one once—to reheat a pizza). A modular Roche Bobois Mah Jong sofa adds a decorative flourish to the living area while maintaining as low a profile as the traditional Japanese furniture.

The metal-topped side table is from Roche’s grandparents’ house and the lamp is vintage Vico Magistretti for Artemide.

The living room features an Equation sofa and Bi-Pod stool, both from Roche Bobois, atop a 1970s Siberian wolf carpet. Through online sleuthing, Roche found the red Boris Tabacoff chair at an Austrian gallery. The chandelier is vintage. Roche’s most-recent acquisitions include the traditional African masks, which he likes for their “aesthetic purity, the beauty of their forms.”

Roche found his suede-covered bed at a Belgian flea market. Roche’s grandfather commissioned the screen, which has a black-and-white maple-leaf motif, in the 1950s.

"The owner wanted some part of the house to be more cozy, and the vibrantly colored Roche Bobois sofa did the trick,

In a dining area, Metropolitan chairs from B&B Italia provide seating at a circular Syntaxe table from Roche Bobois.

Sample (on the right) at SOM in the ’60s before he carefully considered his values and quit. Raised a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector during World War II and was used to standing apart for what he believed in.

In the great room, the curved ceiling reaches 16 feet. A Roche Bobois sofa faces a double-sided, indoor/outdoor fireplace made of board-formed concrete.

A tub zone lined in redwood connects to the master bedroom, which is furnished with a vintage Sergio Rodrigues lounge chair and Voyage Immobile seats from Roche Bobois.

The living room is furnished with a Paolo Rizzatto 265 swing lamp from Flos, a Roche Bobois Mah Jong sofa, and side tables from Blu Dot.

The playroom is outfitted with Bubble armchairs by Sacha Lakic from Roche Bobois and a custom fire pole that descends from the floor above. The wallpaper is FP502001 Shaman from Pierre Frey.

The living room is furnished with Wassily chairs by Marcel Breuer, a Limbo coffee table from Roche Bobois, and a Reid sofa from Design Within Reach.

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The living room features a sofa from Roche Bobois, Metropolitan armchairs by Jeffrey Bernett for B&B Italia, and a Good Morning table in copper and Anytime table in anthracite frosted glass from Ligne Roset. The rug is by Tissage.

Next are Sample Avenue, a collection of ethereal glass pieces from Polish-born Karoline Fesser, who maintains a studio outside Cologne, Germany.

A shot of the Oakland sample warehouse.

A ladder leads to a guest room in the attic. The striking-blue bedroom dresser was part of a modular storage system installed by the previous owner.

Antique tea and chocolate pots are juxtaposed with a 1930s painting by Jacques Villon, Marcel Duchamp’s brother.

Azevedo left the staircase mostly untouched, a rare exception in her to-the-studs renovation. From the gray leather Roche Bobois sofa, one can take in a view of the surrounding city via a television wired to a rooftop camera. The control center for the home’s automation systems is concealed inside a nearby cabinet.

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