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Planning a visit during Paris Design Week? Consider a visit the Institut Su\u00e9dois<\/a> (Swedish Culture Institute) in the future. If the your timing is right, you can visit apartments, that until now were hidden to me. The institute offers a free, guided visit (English is available) of their residence apartments for visiting Swedish artists and researchers. After 50 years, the apartments in the 16th century town house (h\u00f4tel particulier<\/em>) have undergone a major renovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a group of eight, you can take a guided visit until October 13, of residential apartments in the H\u00f4tel de Marle in the Marais. The tours are usually given in French. If you wish another language, like English, show up an hour before. Tours are Wednesday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4pm. Go to reception at 3 pm and request an English tour. The Swedish Institute will arrange a guide for the exhibition \u201cHem fois 6\u201d (Feel at home in 6 different apartments). There is a caf\u00e9 in the courtyard while you wait. The tour is part of the \u201cSwedish Design Moves\u201d event to increase awareness of Swedish design in architecture, fashion and furniture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why would you want to make this visit? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The apartments for Swedish artists and researchers were redesigned, renovated and reopened in 2019. This year they have 205 candidates for six apartments. Artists have been competing for a short-term apartment since the 1970’s.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you will see?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beginning in the back garden next to the bush with the sound of water gurgling (actually a work of art with recorded sound) you enter side doors rarely opened to the public. Passing through the auditorium, a narrow staircase of wood planks and \u201ctommette\u201d (pentagon-shaped terra cotta tiles). Each room has a number and a phrased title, for example: “Murmure de couture” (Sewing whispers) or “Une chambre \u00e0 soi” (Your own room).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each room has a piece of furniture that has been in use for the past 50 years. The item (perhaps a chair, a lamp, a tray or a chest) becomes the core example for the design of the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which way does the window open: outward or inward?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Designs sometimes come with small design flaws; the Swedish apartment designers were no exceptions. They did not take into consideration windows. French windows open inward in case one has a balcony; Swedish windows open outward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The present layout design in some rooms (thinking of curtains and tables) call for user adaptability. This does not detract from the overall crispness of the apartments. If you like clever design (consider their use of tables in several of the rooms). A table is divided into two: One for working by the window, the other half the dining table for two. Put them together and you have a dining table for six. Each room has a different design for color, layout, kitchen, bath, closets. They range in size from 22 m2 to 38 m2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSwedish Design Moves” is a program that aims at increasing the international awareness of Swedish design, including the branches of architecture, fashion and furniture. The overall goal is to increase the number of visitors to Sweden interested in design as well as exports of Swedish design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program is led by Visit Sweden and is part of a Swedish governmental initiative.\u201d Swedish Design Moves<\/a> https:\/\/swedishdesignmoves.com. Visit the apartments\u00a0 exhibition “Hem fois 6” (Feel like home in 6 different apartments) until October 13. Tours are Wednesday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4pm. Go to reception at 3 pm and request an English tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cercle Su\u00e9dois – Svenska Klubben – Swedish Club<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Institute Su\u00e9dois<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

33 1 44 78 80 20
11 rue Payenne
75003 Paris
M\u00e9tro: Saint Paul-Le Marais (line 1) and Chemin Vert (line 8)
Bus: 29, 69, 76 et 96
V\u00e9lib: rue de la Perle, rue Saint-Gilles
Opening hours:
Wednesday \u2013 Sunday \/ 12:00 \u2013 18:00
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The Caf\u00e9 Su\u00e9dois :
Tuesday \u2013 Sunday \/ 12:00 \u2013 18:00
Closed on Mondays<\/p>\n\n\n\n