Written by an architect whose knowledge imbues every page, this story becomes more gripping with every soul hidden and every life saved. ( From the publisher. Charles Belfoure - The Paris Architect Naperville Community Television NCTV17 8.76K subscribers 2.9K views 7 years ago Authors Revealed 2015 Show more Show more Comments are turned off. The Paris Architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we'll go to make things right. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist.īut when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what's at stake. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble.Īll he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-and maybe get him killed.
Today, though, I like to live in spaces that are a mélange of the sophisticated and the bohemian.A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war. I launched my career in the 1980s when the ‘total look’ dominated. I have little desire to lock myself into a style or in an era. “I find it interesting to mix objects and tell a story. Radical Italian design, and the maestros Ettore Sottsass, Carlo Scarpa, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, and Carlo Mollino, occupy pride of place in this Paris apartment positions that are ever evolving as the architect likes to try new combinations and push the line-without ever letting the space feel frozen. A well-rounded aesthete, he knows how to tell the story behind objects and stage them within a space. “I find that the very colorful Sottsass ceramics fit quite well in this ambience.” Growing up in a family of collectors, Zana inherited a strong penchant for vintage design and for creating bold associations. It’s a blank page that invites dashes of color. “I believe many architects like living in spaces full of history that precedes them and goes a little beyond them.” Here, the preference was to opt for a monochrome look with curtains and white walls to accomplish a form of serenity. Sometimes, spaces that have been modified can still give off the impression of having been there forever, the operative idea being to subtly blend them into, while showing great respect for, an existing setting.
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