Near place Vendôme, on a small, quiet street, Café Nuances seems like a paradox of time: beyond the façade, a little 1920s gem protected by the heritage authorities, a space opens up that is made almost exclusively of color.
The studio Uchronia, designers of the project, wanted to create a dialogue between Art Déco and the present. After the initial part of the space, with a decorated glass ceiling and details in wrought iron (all from the original period), a sequence of colored wings leads to the bar in satin-finish steel, with bright orange shelving behind it.
The partitions, seen from the bar counter, are actually shelving units with a very glossy resin-treated surface; the colors are based on those of the ceiling of the first space in the venue. Hidden LED fixtures provide the lighting, with the help of several vintage design lamps as a refined stylistic detail. The outcome of the project is a magnetic space in which the savoir faire of the past is set in dialogue with that of our time, generating a new aesthetic.
Photo © Felix Dol Maillot, courtesy of Uchronia
