"We looked at the imagery of the swimming pool, in both still photography and films, and imagined something like a modernist vacation home in the south of France, with bold, primary colors, We were guided by a hypothetical question: What would a kitchen inspired by swimming pools look like? It was light-hearted fun, but sometimes it's little things that lead us to design, as we did here, a kidney bean-shaped sink, a reference to California swimming pools."
"If it had been just slightly darker and deeper, it would have been closer to the shade of blue used by many modern architects, The blue we chose is both cheerful and slightly washed out, which gives it a certain subtlety, though it is still quite bold. It has a Memphis-esque feel to it."
Interior designers Johanna Lapray and Hugo L'ahelec reimagined a fifth-floor Paris apartment by combining a veranda with the living room to bring the outside in and flood the space with natural light. The redesign draws inspiration from swimming-pool imagery and the iconography of Art Deco, modernism, and minimalism, translating those references into bold primary colors and mosaic tiles. The kitchen is defined by a pool-like blue and features a kidney bean-shaped sink as a playful reference to California pools. A yellow hallway and a rustic oak floor with wide, characterful planks complete the palette-driven layout.
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