The previous apartment belonging to interior designers Pierre Emmanuel Martin and Stéphane Garotin, (of Maison Hand) in the French city of Lyon, was almost completely black. “It was really nice in the winter and very cosy in the evening, but more difficult to live with in the summer,” Martin recalls. “It was so dark that I’d have to take my trousers to the window just to see what colour they were.” So when the couple decided to move, th...
