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2025 LEN APARTEMENT

Setting

The apartment once belonged to the client’s grandmother, holding a collection of dear family artefacts and memories. The interior project aimed to renovate the space and adapt it to modern living, without destroying a precious generational continuity. Hence the challenge was to refresh yet to preserve, to renew yet to maintain

The Story

The concept emerged as a quiet balance between past and present. A muted, warm palette runs throughout the space, reminiscent of the yellowed pages of an old book. It sets a soft retro atmosphere—enveloping and deeply familiar. Creating a contrast, certain rooms introduce a stronger, more defined character. The kitchen unfolds in deep burgundy tones, anchored by a mosaic floor composed partly of original tiles preserved from the grandmother’s time—fragments of the past woven into a new composition. Grandmother’s painted portrait in sky blue was chosen as a centrepiece that sets the tone for the living room interior. the blue colour spills out of its designated frame and suuses the living room with ethereal hues that gradually extend onto adjacent

Rather than preserving the apartment as it was, the project reinterprets it—creating a space where memory is not fixed, but quietly continues to live.

@Nathalie Gertz

@Nathalie Gertz

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