Custom-made bookcase for a Provençal farmhouse

As part of the renovation of a Provençal farmhouse, the clients wanted a custom-made unit for the living room that would serve both as a bookcase and as a TV cabinet. In particular, three lamps of different sizes had to be showcased so that they would find their natural place within a single, unified wall.

A bookcase designed around three existing light fixtures

The design and proportions of the unit were carefully studied so that each of the three lamps (including a Pipistrello lamp) finds its place in the composition. Open niches, shelves and closed storage are organized within a single grid, where books, objects and lamps punctuate a monochrome backdrop tinted in a warm beige.

Standard cabinets inside a custom-made structure

To optimize the budget, we integrated standard cabinet boxes from a major home-improvement retailer. The aim was to keep the price and reliability of an off-the-shelf element, but to wrap it in a painted plasterboard structure designed on site, with custom-made fronts fitted to the cabinets.

The result blends into the architecture like a masonry-built piece, with no hint of the cabinets’ standard origin.

A bookcase integrated into the reorganization of the living room

This custom-made bookcase contributes to the redistribution of the space in the living room: a divider created at the entrance structures circulation without compartmentalizing or darkening the room, while the furniture (low sofas, Togo armchair, sculptural light fixtures) settles into this understated setting that leaves all the room to volumes and materials.