With Paris in the spotlight as the host of this year's Olympic games, people planning on visiting this summer know that the city is likely to be at its most crowded. But what tucked-away gems are there to discover outside of the busy rooms of the Louvre and the poetic, yet overly-traveled cobblestone alleys of Montmartre? We asked our favorite Paris-based designers to take us on a tour across the city to the places that feel most like home to them.
Heju is an architecture and design studio founded in Paris in 2015 by Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann. Driven by a fascination with Japanese and Scandinavian design, the duo's work — straddling furniture, residential, hotel, and art projects — leans onto the timeless beauty of minimalist volumes and lines to 'breathe poetry into the daily lives of our clients'.
