APPAREIL architecture

Photography by Félix Michaud Walk through the doors and the restaurant’s stark exterior vanishes, revealing a warm, inviting space with tones reminiscent of its namesake: melba toast. Inspired by the yellow and plum hues of old French bistros, the central island flaunts porcelain with burgundy veins and copper accents, exuding Art Deco luxury. The design is rich yet focused: veined ash walls, semi-octagonal island, gleaming porcelain, and an angled bar niche.

Photography by Félix Michaud photographie At Montréal’s Mount-Royal Plateau, Appareil Architecture converted a duplex into a single-family residence. Exquisite details abound, such as the master suite’s triangular wall of oak door fronts, each framed in trim with a similar grain, on the storage closet tucked under the attic’s pitched roof.

Name Le Corbusier Words Steph Wade “To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state”, said Le Corbusier. “It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be”. The better part of a century has passed since the Swiss-French Le Corbusier (1887-1965), born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, declared the above, and yet his legacy is such that his designs feel thoroughly contemporary.