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personality, opting for vintage pieces, including
a few Roche Bobois prototypes that never made
it to production.
Roche purchased the three-story structure in 2000.
Originally a single-family home, the building had
been split into two units; he lives on the top floors,
plus the converted attic, and a tenant lives downstairs.
The house is located near Buttes-Chaumont, a
19th-century park with an artificial lake. The adjacent
neighborhood, where Roche lives, has a distinctive
architecture style from the early 20th century.
In order to convert the upper floors to suit his
lifestyle, Roche removed as many wall partitions as
possible—each room originally had a single window,
he recalls—to create an open plan for his unit. “I’m
single, so I didn’t want to keep all those partitions.
I just wanted to have a big, open space,” he says. >
The living room features an
Equation sofa and Bi-Pod stool,
both from Roche Bobois,
atop a 1970s Siberian wolf
carpet. Through online
sleuthing, Roche found the
red Boris Tabacoff chair at
an Austrian gallery. The
chandelier is vintage. Roche’s
most-recent acquisitions
include the traditional African
masks, which he likes for
their “aesthetic purity,
the beauty of their forms.”
Roche Residence Floor Plan
A Kitchen
B Half Bathroom
C Entrance
D Living Room
E Dining room
F Bathroom
G Bedroom
H Attic
First Level
B
A
C
E
D
Second Level
N
F
G
H