Paying visit to Carrie is like flying away from the doldrums of Faubourg Saint-Denis for a moment. A changing cosmopolitan neighbourhood, both noisy and vibrant. The food photographer, chef and author of best-sellers is aware about these attributes. This liveliness stimulates her. Carrie is an American from Michigan and she arrived in France ten years ago, with the desire to start a new adventure. A lot of encounters and books later – An American in Paris, Inside Chefs’ Fridges and Food with kids (her last one) -, there she is, smiling in this apartment in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. A space she wanted to be open on the interior courtyard, a kind of green patio, from where a radiating light is coming. To enhance it, she almost constantly uses the white colour. Almost as much as she uses glass, whose transparency is everywhere, from the small decorative objects to the glass wall between the living room and her bedroom. The succession of rooms, ode to the hygge, is more than this: the apartment is a whole. It seems obvious. Natural materials, warm skins, cosy and welcoming furniture: we understand why Carrie is proactive at home. Logical consequence: the woman who will soon manage the Coffee Parisien guides us to her kitchen. A functional space where she tries many things. Here spicy breadcrumbs, and there savoury granola. We drool over, try, and talk while drinking a cup of tea. Time flies, Carrie has a melodious accent. We are charmed.
Photography : Constance Gennari – Text : Caroline Balvay @thesocialitefamily
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