Turenne is a minimalist residential interior located in Paris, France, designed by After Bach. The Marais district carries centuries of accumulated aesthetic memory – its faubourg buildings and layered architectural history create a demanding context for any interior intervention. Francesco Balzano’s response through his studio After Bach treats this pressure not as constraint but as structural logic, building a composition rigorous enough to hold its own against the neighborhood’s cultural weight while remaining deliberately open to the contemporary art furniture that defines the apartment’s true purpose.

The 120-square-meter plan follows an L-shaped configuration that separates public and private life with architectural clarity. Facing the street, two large rooms of identical proportion sit in sequence – dining room with open kitchen, then living room – creating a volumetric corridor of equal weight rather than a traditional hierarchy of spaces. The courtyard side retreats into two bedrooms with independent bathrooms, the master suite further isolated behind a concealed door that renders it acoustically and visually self-contained during daytime hours.

Material selection operates through a logic of controlled contrast. Stone dominates the primary surfaces – floors, imposts, fireplace, kitchen, and bathrooms – treated with finely softened beige facings and articulated through minuted netting that gives the material a quiet, textural presence rather than monumental weight. Against this lithic ground, green Alpine marble appears in the wet rooms and Breccia Aurora defines the kitchen, introducing chromatic variation through the specific geology of each stone rather than applied color. Oak woodwork, very slightly tinted, reads as a transitional material between the stone’s permanence and the softness of wool wall treatments and silky ivory carpet in the private rooms.