{"id":51582,"date":"2026-07-15T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/51582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:21:21","slug":"hubert-zandbergs-paris-apartment-delivers-the-modern-antidote-to-the-historic-time-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/51582\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubert Zandberg\u2019s Paris Apartment Delivers the Modern Antidote to the Historic Time Warp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Achieving the \u2018vibrations\u2019 was no easy feat, with substantial physical alterations taken on by Zandberg\u2019s team. A dividing wall between the former dining room and reception room was removed, creating a generous open-plan<\/a> space. Original fireplaces and timber mouldings were retained, while the kitchen and bathrooms were enlarged. \u201cWe acted as both architect and interior designer on this project,\u201d says Zandberg. \u201cWe were moving walls and making changes to the footprint, so there was a lot of interior architecture happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zandberg\u2019s interest in materiality continues in the bespoke furniture. A custom coffee table, made in England, has a hand-painted burnt tortoiseshell trompe l\u2019oeil finish. \u201cI have always loved creating a material that is a complete illusion,\u201d says Zandberg. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t closely resemble anything that exists. It is almost like an in-joke: if you know, you know, and if you don\u2019t, you still experience it subconsciously.\u201d However, for all its clever elements and playful illusions, the apartment has a very practical life. Zandberg recalls returning after the clients had moved in and finding the dining table covered with a laptop, books and documents. \u201cYou see exactly where they sit when they\u2019re reading, and where they work,\u201d he says. \u201cSuddenly the apartment is transformed<\/a> into a working home, and that is lovely, because it is inhabited as it\u2019s meant to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Achieving the \u2018vibrations\u2019 was no easy feat, with substantial physical alterations taken on by Zandberg\u2019s team. A dividing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30763,152,30,14723,6775],"class_list":["post-51582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-home-tours","tag-homes","tag-paris","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}