Agnès Debizet blurs the boundaries between home and work in the Paris apartment where she has lived for nearly 30 years, creating interiors that are deeply personal and constantly evolving.
“It’s just like a laboratory,” says French ceramicist and sculptor Agnès Debizet of her apartment in the heart of Le Marais, tucked within the French capital’s fourth arrondissement. Indeed, it defies nearly every convention of domestic life. It is neither simply a home nor strictly a studio, but a place of constant experimentation, which interweaves both functions to the point they are virtually inseparable.
“This is where my ideas take shape,” explains Debizet, whose kiln is located in her country house in Burgundy. Although she has a dedicated studio in Paris, her works in fabric, paper and clay spill into every room of the house. Many of the pieces here, such as the lamps, tables and ceramic creations, are prototypes, and blur the boundaries between sculpture and furniture. In one corner of her atelier, a lofty, unrealised clay light with embedded square boxes remains on standby. “I have kept it here because I really like it and would like to create it fully at some point,” she muses. Even the kitchen, with its open display of utensils, feels like an extension of her studio.