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David Dubois (photo: Olivier Amsellem)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We LOVE this simple bed on a base of this rough-cut timbers, one longer than the other to extend beyond the bed to make a built-in side table. This bedroom is part of an exhibition at The Villa Noailles<\/a>, an arts center located in the hills above Hy\u00e8res, in the Var, in southeastern France. The villa is an\u00a0early modernist house, built by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens<\/a> for art patrons in 1925. (It has quite a history.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Four designers were invited to design a guest room in a wing of the building,\u00a0conceiving the basic furniture of a room: a bed, a table-office, bedding, a lamp and a vase.<\/p>\n

In this bathroom, the walls were covered with artful photomurals, that expand the space (imagining it with plain walls shows the scope of the transformation, do-able in any untiled bathroom.)<\/p>\n

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Bless (photo: Olivier Amsellem)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re thinking thick timbers could probably be found at a reclaimed wood depot<\/a>. A sheet of plywood would hold the mattress…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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