Articles by Agnès Carpentier

With its white villas, bougainvillea and pine-planted valleys overlooking the Mediterranean sea, the La Corniche Boulevard in Marseilles, France, is a dream location. It is on one of the slopes of the Bompard neighborhood that, in 2018, this family of…

The September 2020 edition of the Maison & Objet trade fair, which usually takes place in Paris, was transformed into a digital conference (the Digital Fair, Sept. 4-18, 2020) on the event’s year-round digital platform, Maison & Objet and More…

When this young woman decided to buy her first home, she fell for a 215-square-foot studio apartment with an open-plan kitchen and a comfortable bathroom. Although it’s a small space, it’s in a pretty building ideally situated in the center of Lamorla…

Since 1995, the Maison & Objet trade fair, held twice a year in Paris, has been the international meeting point for professionals in the lifestyle, interiors and design fields. It brings together more than 3,000 exhibitors and nearly 90,000 visito…

Homeowners and designers have been leaning on single colors, like peacock blue or anthracite, to spice up a wall or a whole room for a while. But at this month’s Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris, Houzz editors saw a much subtler use of color,…

Homeowners and designers have been leaning on single colors, like peacock blue or anthracite, to spice up a wall or a whole room for a while. But at this month’s Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris, Houzz editors saw a much subtler use of color,…

When this 19-year-old moved to Paris from elsewhere in France, her parents wanted to give her the best possible surroundings by remodeling a studio apartment they own in the center of the capital. The apartment, which they had rented out, hadn’t been…

After his divorce, this father looked for a place where he could start fresh with his two kids, who live with him part time. He didn’t have to look very far: The apartment on the sixth floor of their 19th-century building had been empty for years, and…

At this January’s Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris, a sense of disenchantment with bright, white Nordic-style interiors was palpable. Art Deco has been coming to the fore again as a style inspiration, and this edition of the fair brought it into…

At this January’s Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris, a sense of disenchantment with bright, white Nordic-style interiors was palpable. Art Deco has been coming to the fore again as a style inspiration, and this edition of the fair brought it into…