We recently featured the new Second Residence, a vacation rental from cult lifestyle store Merci located in an 18th century building the Latin Quarter of Paris. Former creative director Jules Mesny-Deschamps worked with Reka Magyar, the store’s head of style, to create the artful mix-and-match style seen here. We dissected the key elements of the apartment’s main bedroom to recreate the look.
Above: The bedroom is a prime example of, as the designers call it, “mixing two antagonist aesthetics,” where modern meets subtle romance. Photograph from Lessons in Mixing and Mismatching: Merci Reinvents a Paris Apartment, courtesy of Merci. Above: A trio of stools makes up a side table. The black-and-white collage-painting is by Fernando Daza from Wilo & Grove. Photograph from Lessons in Mixing and Mismatching: Merci Reinvents a Paris Apartment, courtesy of Merci.
Furniture
Above: A similar chair to the lounge chair in the bedroom is the classic Allan Gould Bow Chair. The vintage set with an ottoman is $4,800 at Chairish. Above: The bench at the foot of the bed is the Piet Hein Eek One Beam Bench in blue; €1,226 at Piet Hein Eek in the Netherlands. Above: A similar side table to the one seen in the bedroom is the Ethnicraft Oak Mikado Side Table for $389 at Burke Decor.
Lighting
Above: A Remodelista favorite, the Koushi Pendant Light by Mark Eden Schooley is €235 at Merci. Above: The Invider Table Lamp in Kraft is made of papier-mâché; €240 at Merci.
