Paris apartments arrive with proportion, mouldings and parquet already in place. The job is rarely to add; it is to edit, repair and let the room breathe.
Haussmann apartment renovations, pied-à-terre fit-outs, and small hospitality and retail interiors.
The existing fabric is the brief — cornices, boiserie, point de Hongrie parquet, tall casement windows. Restoration comes before intervention. New work should be recognisably new: restrained, well-made, and not pretending to be nineteenth century. Warm neutrals, plaster finishes and considered lighting suit the north-European light better than high contrast.
Copropriété rules, building constraints and approvals govern what can change, particularly to services and facade. We establish that envelope before design decisions are made.
Working across a distance is exactly where BIM earns its keep. The project is modelled and coordinated in three dimensions before anything is ordered, so joinery, services and finishes are resolved against one another rather than on site, quantities come off the model, and a local contractor can build from drawings that leave nothing to interpretation.
NYKS is a turnkey studio: the same people who draw the room are accountable for the room that gets built — design, artisan commissioning, procurement, site execution and handover. We do not take styling-only engagements. More about the studio and how it works is on the about page.
Where a project needs them, we bring in specialists by niche — a landscape designer when the garden is part of the architecture, a lighting designer when the room depends on how it is lit, MEP consultants so services are engineered rather than accommodated, and IT and AV consultants where the space has to be genuinely intelligent. Their work is coordinated in BIM against ours, so everything agrees on the drawing before it has to agree on site.
Through BIM and resolved documentation. The room is modelled in three dimensions and coordinated before work starts, so the specification a local contractor receives is unambiguous. Site presence is scheduled around the decisive stages rather than spread thin.
Yes. The method is to restore and edit what exists — mouldings, boiserie, parquet — and to make new work clearly new rather than imitative.
Warm neutrals, plaster finishes and carefully planned lighting, which suit the northern light better than high contrast.
Copropriété rules and building regulations govern services and facade in particular. That envelope is established before design decisions.
She spent close to six months at École Spéciale d’Architecture on exchange, and credits it with sharpening how she thinks. It is a city the studio knows rather than one it is guessing at.