Jean-Pierre Raynaud’s studio

The artist Jean-Pierre Raynaud fell under the spell of the "Clos d'Hortense", a building on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. He suggested to Jean-Michel Wilmotte that the house be enlarged and given a modern touch.

The artist Jean-Pierre Raynaud fell under the spell of the "Clos d'Hortense", a building on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. He suggested to Jean-Michel Wilmotte that the house be enlarged and given a modern touch.

This project cements the complicity and trust between an artist and an architect.

This project cements the complicity and trust between an artist and an architect.

The transparency of the glass, the plant volumes under the canopy, the black panels, the gold, each element takes its own place and blends with pleasure in this surprise on the edge of the wood, as a tribute to the poetic power of the place, to the painters and naturalists of Barbizon.

The transparency of the glass, the plant volumes under the canopy, the black panels, the gold, each element takes its own place and blends with pleasure in this surprise on the edge of the wood, as a tribute to the poetic power of the place, to the painters and naturalists of Barbizon.