MARIANNE EVENNOU : A STAR IS BORN !
Designer of a specific lifestyle in interior decoration:
this magician who likes houses so much and reveals them so well, gave us an
exclusive Interview!
A star who illuminates what is most precious to us:
our home, our refuge!
Discover another article in the french magazine of this month ( Dec/JAN 2018 Vivre COTE PARIS N°54)
Discover another article in the french magazine of this month ( Dec/JAN 2018 Vivre COTE PARIS N°54)
"HOMES MADE TO LIVE AND CREATE" she uses to say!
Before and After Works Studio Place Sainte Catherine 75004
Blessed with extraordinary insights to capture trends, Marianne puts her gifts into her work
creating with inventiveness in order to guess even before her customers what spirit they want
for they new home. Sometimes just by entering a house she will be force of proposals of
innovative and smart developments, optimizing each cm² in particular: the "mini apartment"
section on her website www.marianne-evennou.com , rationalizing to the extreme in order to
combine comfort and fantasy, simplicity and refinement, but always in her own aesthetic
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Marianne, tell us how your aesthetic was born , and how you developed your own style as a decorator?
I just started by creating my own homes that are both workplaces and living places.
Everything went very naturally. My friends asked me to design their interiors, articles and
requests followed
A charming and cosy studio made with contemporary design |
Did you hesitated between ARCHITECTURE and DECORATION?
To tell the truth, I do not feel as an architect or a decorator. I simply create interiors.
A bit like a designer who imagines a garment for a client and a friend, a second skin that
offers both inner protection and a carapace to face the outside world. Hence the importance of an harmonious and inspiring relationship.
the solftness of colors : Marianne' signature |
How do find inspiration or how do you think about
works you are in charge of ?
I
always think first about the apartment‘s structure, the plan. It's a bit like
the skeleton of the
house.
It does not show but it's decisive. Living inside must be as fluid and
comfortable as
possible.
I need to adapt to the lifestyle of its inhabitants.
And
then I figure out the space, first with colors, then with a few books and
paintings...
Tell us about your color approach, always
particularly subtle
I like playing with colors because they bring life
and character to places. Nothing could be
more
impersonal than a white space. Color is a risk-taking but so much more
stimulating.
I particularly like the dull colors that give depth
and gravity while being elegant. But this step
is always
approached with gentleness. The relationship to color is very physical. I often
associate it
with taste. Some people like salty, others like sweet.
The same is true for color. Some think in bright
colors, others think in more nuanced colors.
Color is above all an emotion.
I always try to be in a personal register but adapt
to the sensitivity of the person.
Before and after the renovation : the kitchen becomes a masterpiece ! |
A perfect optimization Marianne's signature |
travels,
flea market visits?
I try as far as possible to distance myself from
the words "trend" or "fashion" even if I am
sensitive to
my time and its influences, my trajectory is much more timeless, personal
and mixed. My sources of inspiration are more easily found in a painting, a
reading, an
encounter or
a journey than in shops or lounges. I am a great dreamer who above all
loves
to be fed with emotions and an imaginary world.
You like to personally go antiquing, and mix the
objects coming from flea market or
vintage, it
is not necessary -you are used to say- , to find a piece of furniture matching
exactly to the size of its location, is it this supplement of freedom
that is important?
Yes, that's right. No recipe, no stereotyped
ideas but just the desire for a mix of furniture and objects that are
collected without a priori. I do not want to create sets but places where you
feel happy
to live and as open minded as possible.
Your site appears as a catalog of encounters: a
structural harmony between a place
and an
encounter: between those who are destined to settle in these places and you ...
how do you manage to conceive more personalization, more
inspiration, in order to make these houses, these apartments, these places
always more unique?
Yes, every construction site is first and foremost
a human adventure. And I always leave a
little bit
of myself in every project. I try to personalize the adventure as much as
allowed by
time
and material constraints . Each project has its Instagram and allows the
client to
participate
as closely as possible to the adventure. And we often end with a little book
that
tells the story of the site. I think of these
adventures as of novels that are written.
Mezzanine under the roof : brillant optimisation ! |
Yes, it was a magnificent compliment that went
straight to my heart.
What is- for you - the most important before
buying a home?
It is in a very pragmatic way all that one can not
change and with which one will have to
arrange: the location, the light, the noise, the
quality of the building. And then in a much less pragmatic way, that mysterious
"I do not know what" that makes you feel good in a place or
not. It is
sometimes a story of irrational vibration as in any encounter but what makes
the salt of life.
Do you live in PARIS and what is your favorite
neighborhood?
I split mylife between Senlis and my offices in the
Rue Sedaine near Bastille ( 11th district )
The slow time of my countryside home surroudings on
the one hand and the other a
stimulating,and on the other hand a
stimulating, young and creative neighbourhood! I do
not really
have a favorite district but I am naturally attracted by those new trendy
areas
where
onecan feel a wind of freedom and creativity such as the 9th and 10th !
What would you say to our visitors (in order
to provoke a future meeting perhaps and a new adventure)
I am not very good at provoking encounters. I just
think that some of them must be done
naturally, by mutual attraction, and that we must
always be demanding and selective in these choices.
To find your sweet home Marianne will decorate : contact me + (33) 6 60 69 77 67
www.marianne-evennou.com
her blog : http://marianneevennou.blogspot.com/
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