Place Vendôme Apartment

In Paris, Sig Bergamin and Murilo Lomas treat their own apartment as both a laboratory and a manifesto. The result has the freshness of an installation, with a controlled theatricality filtered through a Brazilian eye that is unafraid of color, contrast, and humor. The transformation begins with a decisive shift in palette and attitude. New paint and reupholstery replace a quieter mood with layered yellows, golds, and reds built through texture. Pattern is used as language, not embellishment, and the constant tension between the classical and the unexpected keeps the space in motion. Eclecticism is handled with a curator’s discipline. At the center of the living room, a pair of vintage Pierre Paulin armchairs, found at a Paris flea market and reupholstered in red, sets the scene. Nearby, a Biedermeier bench and a 1940s neoclassical table meet Louis style chairs upholstered in fuchsia zebra, a collision of references that works because the proportions are exact. That same logic runs throughout the apartment, with Pierre Paulin and B&B armchairs, Louis XVI chairs, and a mix of rugs and artisanal textiles from India and Nepal, alongside Chinese artworks and framed photographs from other geographies. It is a home that reads as collection and travel, where velvet, gold, and animal print act as punctuation, not excess.