A home to compose
Apartments, family houses, private mansions: interiors conceived to last, in the rightness of historical proportions and the freedom of everyday life.
The House
One eye,
One eye,
one way of living.
Richard de Barentin, interior decorator and decorative painter.
“I do not decorate a space ; I place it within a continuity. Neither pastiche nor reconstruction: a living authenticity.”
Richard de Barentin
A culture of decor
French eighteenth-century aesthetics and the techniques of decorative painting shape the way I look at a room.
I love the rightness of a proportion, the freedom of a curve, the nuances a patina reveals in the light. An interior is also composed from very simple gestures: receiving, reading, gathering, withdrawing. That is the life a decor must welcome.
Based in Paris, I work on private residences and hospitality projects, in France and internationally.
Three convictions
One and the same
One and the same
standard.
i
A taste for history
Each period has its ornamental grammar, its proportions, its materials. An interior does not quote a style: it understands it.
ii
The demands of the hand
Decorative painting, gilding, fabrics, joinery: the art crafts give a decor its body. They are chosen, and orchestrated.
iii
Life first
A decor that prevents you from living is not a good decor. Behind every panel, storage; behind every enfilade, circulation.
Two groundsFor those who live there,
For those who live there,
for those who receive.
A place to stage
Guest houses of character, manors and exceptional properties: a decor that gives every guest the feeling of a singular address.
It always begins with a conversation
Let us
Let us
meet.
A precise brief or a first intuition: a few words are enough to begin.