The Pigalle district in Paris, long known as the city’s red-light quarter, is one of its most famous and popular neighborhoods. For those who love this city, it remains a place to return to—if only to recall the bohemian life of another era and the inspiration that nourished artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec. In this singular setting, an apartment of barely 60 square meters has been transformed into a stage for bold graphic gestures and a palette of colors that leaves no one indifferent. This is the latest scene created by Atelier HA, the studio founded by Hugo Vince and Adèle Nourry, who in just five months have turned a compact interior into a place brimming with theatricality and life—as they have accustomed us to. Their project La Coquette, which we featured in this magazine a few months ago, offers another glimpse of their creative spirit.
A kitchen at the center of attention
The project is organized around the kitchen, conceived as a vibrant graphic stage. High-gloss lacquered fronts in a deep burgundy converse with tiled countertops in shades of rust, sage, and cream, bringing texture and depth. The gesture is bold: a functional space elevated to the rank of scenography, accompanied by Belgian vintage stools and lacquered lighting fixtures designed to measure by the studio.
In the living room, a mirrored wall designed by Atelier HA amplifies perspectives and multiplies light. The space becomes a place of reflections, where every movement creates new scenes. Iconic pieces coexist here: the Sandra sofa by Annie Hieronimus, a 1970s circular lacquered coffee table, a Giampiero Vitelli armchair, alongside gallery objects, contemporary sculptures, and works by Caroline Derveaux. Together, they compose a stage where every object plays its role, like actors in a theatrical piece—directed, in this case, with mastery by Hugo and Adèle.
At the entrance to the apartment, the designers already declare their intentions. The intense red of Farrow & Ball envelops the lacquered staircase designed to measure by the studio, while a 1970s vintage wall lamp illuminates the threshold. It is a dramatic prologue that prepares visitors to enter a world where the everyday is transformed into an artistic gesture. The Andora curtains by Nobilis soften the transitions and add warmth, while silver details by Christofle, gallery pieces, and vintage crystal bring flashes of sophistication.
A poetics of space
In this project, Vince and Nourry demonstrate that even a small space can become the stage for a total aesthetic experience. The Pigalle Apartment celebrates intimacy and conviviality with equal force, unfolding a chromatic and material universe that reflects the identity of Atelier HA: the art of creating atmospheres that are livable, surprising, and memorable.
Project: Pigalle.
Location: París.
Area: 60 m2.
Completion: 2025.
Interior Design: Atelier HA. Adèle Nourry & Hugo Vince.
Photography: Yannick Labrousse.
Source: Atelier HA. Mews.
Atelier HA
116 rue Legendre
75017 Paris
adele@atelierha.com
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Atelier HA
In the heart of Paris emerges Atelier HA, the studio founded by Hugo Vince and Adèle Nourry. As they recount, “it was at the École Camondo that the idea of creating our own studio first came to us, to be free to realize our own ideas. We wanted to give free rein to our creativity.” Their work unfolds as a manifesto of color, reflection, and memory, where each project becomes a stage for life and emotion.
An architect by training and an tireless explorer of perception, Hugo Vince plays with light and mirrors like a stage director orchestrating the gaze. His interiors multiply reflections, expand spaces, and transform the everyday into something unexpected. In contrast to this experimental vision, Adèle Nourry brings the warmth of sensitivity and the rigor of the tangible: her hand is evident in the choice of materials, in the cadence of colors, in the balance between the bold and the intimate. Together they have built a creative complicity where every gesture is guided by the search for livable and surprising atmospheres.
The studio is distinguished by its ability to engage in dialogue with the memory of spaces: from compact Parisian apartments to family houses on the outskirts, Atelier HA preserves traces of the past while reinventing them with contemporary theatricality. Their interiors—painted with glossy lacquers, mirrors that double reality, tiles that recall craftsmanship, and vintage pieces steeped in history—are settings that celebrate both intimacy and conviviality.
Beyond technique, the studio advocates for an empathetic practice, able to listen to those who inhabit their projects and translate their desires into spaces that are both habitable and poetic. In this way, Vince and Nourry affirm that architecture and interior design, in passionate hands, are a form of art that vibrates in the present while never forgetting the memory of place.
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