Long before he moved into the building, Dutch architect Felix Claus admired 51 rue Raynouard, an apartment block in Paris designed and built in 1932 by Auguste Perret. “It’s the sheer abundance with which limited materials are used here that first struck me,” Claus says. “The wall-to-wall French oak paneling, combined with materials that were ahead of their time—columns made not from marble but from stone-blasted concrete, the extraordinary round plaster ceiling inset, and the fiber-wood paneling...”
Photo by Hotze Eisma.
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