The three rooms of the Castle are dedicated to girls

The place is huge (1,000 m2). A drolatique plan drawn on a flying piece by Illustrator Soledad Bravi is distributed to the visitor, the beginning, to help identify in the maze of parts of the Palace for child-King. "Our anguish was that people go visit everything!", says François Muracciole, architect of the transformation. That he is reassured, the route in this mansion turned into flagship Bonpoint keeps you in breath until the end. It is charmed by the orchestrated, scattered, staged such this cabin built mixing apples and oranges, in the shadow of beams into trees. "It was a last minute desire." "I could retrieve the branches of the chestnut trees which, by chance, were pruned this day here on the boulevard Saint-Germain", he says, still impressed by the frenetic pace of the construction completed in five months. This was not his first project with Marie-France and Bernard Cohen, the founders of Bonpoint. Their common adventure started in 2001 with the Bolton (rue de Grenelle) shop and, next door, a children's hairdressing salon. When he evokes his relationship with them, François Muracciole says readily that he gave "birth" project. "Marie-France Cohen has a great talent of decoration, Bernard Cohen is interested in architecture. I helped them to achieve the space which they had the idea. "The request was actually accurate: make a unique and magical boutique-like a castle. "The Cohen have a true vision, adds François Muracciole. Generosity is not a vain Word home. They want to give the best to the children, and consequently offer the most beautiful boutique.

Thirty years of know-how

In settling near the garden of the Luxembourg, 6, rue de Tournon, in the former hotel of lands which long housed the French architecture Institute, the brand celebrates 30 years of know-how in the world of the luxury children's clothing. And underlines the crossing of a Cape. The opening of this new address goes hand in hand with a development unprecedented abroad. Since the entry of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners in its capital, in 2003, Bonpoint is committed to objective of doubling its turnover in five years.

François Muracciole, 43 years, is anything but a demiurge architect. Rehabilitation of the former the more passionate that build new, at any price. He so excels in transformation of plants or of old workshops in houses, shops (such as the counter of the tea in Paris) or offices (Salviati, resonances). "Plant or Castle, I like gratouiller a wall or disinter a window to express, from these details, the identity of a place." As many say that he was happy in this hotel of unnecessary partitions that it took to remove it to reveal the structure. A complex as a whole, built in U and comprising a façade classified, date of three different times. François Muracciole has operated with subtlety, for example in scoring with narrow openings glass at the junction of parts XVII, Executive Board and early 20th. In places, the wall shows equipment with facade stones, always to show that it is three separate architectures added over time.

To restore its castle in the 17th, the Versailles parquet part and point of Hungary have been rebuilt in then dimmed; cornices were recreated and a fireplace in marble installed. The three rooms of the Castle are dedicated to girls. The walls of the boudoir, "girly", for 3-10 years, are lined with a soft pink paint bays veil. Spectacular, the ceiling in flowerbed (false) suspended reflected in the mirror of the table. In contrast, François Muracciole gave a style "loft" in part 20th century hotel, area reserved for boys, using materials such as wood and metal, and Jielde workshop lamps for lighting. Between the two, the fashion for young mothers is presented in an atmosphere "Thousand and one nights" with mosque lamps, cabins of rococo fitting and mattress is alanguir. Extraordinary soul of all is the association of trade furniture, redesigned by François Muracciole, with many finds safety in the flea markets by Marie-France Cohen and his team of designers.

Instead, opened in February, will be completed this month here with, among others, a space shoes on the floor, suite VIP and a tea room in the old vaulted the hotel cellars. An address where he made many come with or without carriages.