“The upper floor includes the entry, cloakroom, guest bathroom, kitchen, dining room, living room, and terrace,” Hammer says. “In contrast to the lower floor and its separated rooms, the living area is composed as an open space with no walls.” Nerd Chairs by David Geckeler for Muuto surround a handcrafted nutwood table in the dining room.
After spending a decade in China, a lawyer and a CEO returned to Paris with their two young children and settled in the city’s 16th arrondissement. However, the 1,000-square-foot apartment’s cozy quarters would soon turn cramped when the couple discovered a third baby was on the way. The family enjoyed their sixth-floor address overlooking the Bois de Boulogne park and the building’s art-deco details constructed in the 1930s, so instead of moving, the couple acted on a rare opportunity. The adjacent residence and the seventh-floor property above were for sale, and the pair purchased both to connect all the spaces together. “Connecting three apartments on two levels in an old Parisian building with numerous structural constraints is not an easy task,” architect Eitan Hammer says, whose namesake firm and business partner Ulli Heckmann were up to the challenge. They had an extensive to-do list that included knocking down walls and adding an abundance of storage, which had to be approved by neighbors and property managers. But in the end, the pair that moved across the world and welcomed a new baby found yet another way to make it work.
