• The brief: Maison Azul is located in Caudéran, a sought-after residential district of Bordeaux. Our client, a retired woman living alone and deeply attached to travel and world cultures, wanted to bring warmth to the main living space of her home so she could truly feel at home there. The house had been renovated a year earlier, but the space, dominated by white and grey tones, warmed only by the parquet floor, lacked both soul and structure: storage units were left exposed, the furniture had no clear place, and the pieces dear to her, particularly her artworks, disappeared into the whiteness of the walls. After several conversations about her tastes and what truly inspired her, we proposed a Mediterranean universe of terracotta and blue, capable of bringing energy and warmth while highlighting her love of world cultures.

• The lounge was reimagined around statement pieces in terracotta that give character to the room, underlined by a rug picking up the blue-terracotta-beige colour code like a true painting on the floor. Nesting wooden coffee tables bring lightness to the space while preserving fluid circulation. The painting cherished by the client, previously lost on a white wall, now takes on its full dimension against a blue wall that fully reveals it.

• A bespoke arched cabinetry unit unfolds along the entire length of the wall. Designed to be fully functional, it houses books and travel mementoes, integrates the existing door, conceals closed storage at its base and reveals a second artwork at its centre. The blue painted at the back of the arches gives the unit a magnificent sense of depth, and its shapes subtly evoke the Mediterranean, a guiding thread dear to the client.

• Towards the entrance of the room, the stool used for putting on shoes, which had never integrated properly, was replaced by a bespoke banquette that extends the arched unit in true visual continuity.

• The kitchen was warmed by the addition of wooden shelves echoing the arched cabinetry. They host a trailing plant and beautiful colourful ceramics brought back from travels, while baskets of fruit in vivid tones lift the colour harmony.

• The entrance hall, finally, retains the existing console and mirrors, enriched by a framed artwork created from an Arte wallcovering, echoing the rest of the living space.

Our mission was to transform a cold, impersonal space into a true place of life that reflects its owner. Through our exchanges, the goal was to understand what truly moved her in an interior and to translate that into materials, colours and bespoke furniture. Maison Azul illustrates a conviction we hold dear: one must never be afraid to dare colour in order to reveal the full potential of a space and make it deeply inhabited.