Type of work
Interior design, Renovation
Use
residential
City
Saint Tropez
Country
France
Year
2006
Client
Private
Plot area
250 m²
Floor area
90 m²
Floor plan
90 m²
Covered area
90 m²
Area of intervention
250 m²
Cubic volume
180 m³
After an initial request for a landscape project, the task was expanded on interior design to ensure stylistic continuity between outside and inside. The requests were to transform the garden and the house to create a modern and contemporary style, to realize on the small area, a swimming pool, a solarium, a relaxing spot and a private guest terrace; building codes prohibited to alter the house status quo. The project made good use of available space, realizing a linear pool exploiting the greater perimeter length; this allowed us to obtain a surface to insert, in continuity, a jacuzzi. A waterfall wall expands visually the water space and integrates the relaxation area. Perimeters hedges of different shapes, height, and essences give depth to the garden. To create a modern style of a traditional architecture, without intervening structurally, it was decided to work on the facades color, choosing a standing and contemporary one which acts , at the same time, as a trait d’union, between the garden and the original style of the house. As for the décor, choices have focused on a simple design which becomes important thanks to the careful juxtaposition of some references to the original Provencal, with simple but sophisticated new furniture. The neutral colors palette and natural elements, together imprint, thanks also to some ethnic decorative elements, the rooms with a customized and underlying sophistication.