The advantage of a home with 27 rooms, is that you can camp inside your own home while you're renovating. And that's exactly what we did for 7 years. For example: while we were working on the floor heating at the 1st floor, we squatted 2 of the offices downstairs. One was our living-dining-office-everything room, Read article…

For this 10th edition of Vintage Sapique, let me tell you about one of the masterpieces of Studio Sapique: the suspended staircase. It was created using reinforced concrete poured in shape, finished with polished marble steps, and brass railing. I wasn't very fond of the brass, so I painted it lilac ( so so ) Read article…

High on our renovation-wishlist is our bathroom. When we moved in in 2004, we installed a temporary shower cabin & renewed the toilet. But we dream of a real bathroom with tiles or tadelakt, a double shower and enough place to store new towels. I created this Pinterest inspiration board for our new bathroom… The Read article…

The former laboratory of Studio Sapique is bigger than a regular Parisian apartment. More than 90sqm for which we haven't found a purpose yet. It could become an art gallery, a pop-up restaurant, a conference room, a stand alone apartment we could rent out, a ballroom, an indoor campsite. Anything really. For the moment it Read article…

Studio Sapique used to be a factory where chemicals were treated. Even in the 60s this meant safety regulations. In the laboratory they had a required chemical shower in case anything went wrong (you can see the red shower head in the Billy on the right). There was also a big blue fire sand bucket Read article…

One of many surprises at Studio Sapique was discovered in the entry greenhouse. As the building was abandoned a few years before we moved in, the greenhouse needed some serious attention. It was a very humid space with lots of fertile tropical plants, dead wood and tiny pebbles in between the plants. Underneath these tiny Read article…

In the 9 years we have lived & worked at Studio Sapique, a mayority of the 27 rooms, housed 1 or more of our guests at a certain moment. Naturally one of the rooms in the apartment became a permanent guestroom with a regular bed and functional decoration. Including 2 huge vintage letters which totally Read article…