The layout of the house has been designed around a central axis: the staircase. It obviously connects different floors, but also structures each of them. The land on which the house is built is not flat - the north facade is lower than the south-west facade - the staircase separates the entrance, from the large living room and the kitchen by a difference in level.

 

From the entrance, the staircase leads to the basement where WC and various technical rooms are installed (laundry room, boiler room, cellar). On the first floor, the staircase separates the large office from the bedroom, on the second it separates the music room from the bar. But this separation

is symbolic. The staircase, in welded metal profiles and fixed to vertical beams at each landing, does not obstruct the view. Thus all the main rooms have a double exposure, including the bedroom: large closet leaves some openings on the staircase and it brings external daylight on the north faced large office desk. The staircase serves also as a skylight, the interior design of the house has been designed to promote and keep in natural light.

 

The preferred materials here are white painted bricks and wood for the interior partitions, glass and white metal for the staircase, again wood and metal, possibly covered with fabric, for the interior furniture. All these materials are very classic for 20th century architecture, and combine modernism and durability, the warmth of some compensating for the coldness of others.