Home in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, a Paris suburb. The couple hired Barbier & Barton, a Paris-based architectural firm to renovate and expand a 19th-century stone-and-glass building, a former gardener’s residence with a second-floor greenhouse
The living room where nature gets the spotlight. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors open onto a wrap-around wooden deck.
The living and dining area is sleek and sparsely decorated, highlighted by a futuristic black metal fireplace, by Focus, suspended from the ceiling. For the floors, the couple liked the soothing light-gray of the unfinished concrete.
A wood-and-metal bridge joins the second story of the renovated gardener’s building with the newly constructed portion of the house.
Glass panels, large and small, are found throughout the house, paying homage to the old greenhouse. A sitting room on the second floor looks out onto the lawn and a fruit orchard.
The Besnards sought to blur the lines between the inside and outside, and large sliding-glass panels in the living room helped achieve that goal. A 19th-century stone retaining wall adds Old World charm in the background.
The master bedroom, on the second floor, is a bright lofty space with large windows looking onto treetops.
A spacious glass shower shaped like a cube and two wash basins are on the far end of the lofty master bedroom. “In Paris flats you are stuck with small bathrooms; I wanted a large shower
A curving path leads to the home’s main entryway. The old stone structure, right, dates to the 1870s. The architects used larch planks on the exterior of the newly constructed portion of the home.
