Maison Hand home tour

Classic Meets Modern in This French Home Tour

September 15, 2016

The home tour I’m sharing with you today is very much in keeping with this month’s French-influenced theme. This bright and newly renovated apartment sits proudly in historic Lyon, France and exudes classic elegance with a contemporary touch.

If you remember the first few home tours I shared, you might remember the name of Lyon-based French interior design house Maison Hand. Today’s tour is yet another stunning work from the design duo, only this one is a bit more personal. This is in fact designers Pierre Emmanuel Martin and Stéphane Garotin’s personal abode and it is every bit as fabulous, if not more so, than their client work. As you will see, the Lyon home that the two share is another incredible example of how fusing eclectic finds with classic touches can create a very unique and modern look.

Put on some Édith Piaf, pour yourself a glass of Burgundy, and soak up the beauty that is this French home tour.

French Home Tour

An Interior by Maison Hand

February 18, 2016

I told myself I wasn’t going to do it…I wasn’t going to give you two home tours by the same designer back to back. That was until I came across this interior by Maison Hand and just couldn’t help myself. I have officially become ~~slightly~~ obsessed with the work of this Lyon-based design team and check in on their website at least once a week in hopes of coming across a new home reveal. Yes, I am in fact a complete Maison Hand fan girl.

The first Maison Hand home tour I shared was a study in contradictions. It was classic; no, it was modern! It was open and airy; it was cozy. It was everything my dream apartment would be and more.

This month’s tour offers a very different perspective into their work. You’ll still find large, sparsely furnished, white washed interiors here, but you’ll also find bold, dark and dramatic elements that elevate this space into something really special. Certainly into something worth sharing.

To be fair, I don’t feel as if that much work had to go into making this room gorgeous. A corner apartment with floor to ceiling windows spanning the length of the room AND herringbone floors? I can only dream.

January 21, 2016

Obsessed does not even begin to express my feelings regarding this apartment. Design studio Maison Hand, headed by Pierre Emmanuel Martin and Stéphane Garotin, was hired to transform this abandoned Lyon apartment into something livable and unique.

Maison Hand went one step further and created an apartment that is filled to the brim with contradictions; all of which come together to create absolute perfection. It is eclectic yet modern. It is refined yet breezy. It is elegant yet homey. It is an absolute dream and too splendid not to share.

When Pierre Emmanuel Martin was asked to describe the space he said (roughly translated),

What we are doing is our interpretation of what is in the design world. We are working more towards creating a lifestyle, rather than just collecting famous names. Of course we work with many wonderful brands, but as with cooking, mix and method is as important as the ingredients.

How perfect is that? The design duo hit it out of the park with this one and created an apartment that projects a lifestyle I for one would be happy to live.

The living space achieves what I think of as a unicorn when it comes to interior design…it is both stately and relaxed.