A boutique interior design atelier shaping residences, pieds-à-terre, and country retreats for clients who prefer restraint over spectacle. Twenty-five years between Paris and Toronto.
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A small portfolio from the past two seasons — between Paris and Ontario. We take on no more than eight residential projects per year.
Four storeys, original plaster, beautiful bones — and twenty-five years of disastrous renovations to undo. We stripped layers of laminate, restored original chestnut floors, replaced thirteen windows with hand-glazed reproductions, and dressed the rooms in a tightly held palette of bouclé, raw silk, antique brass, and old marble. The house no longer announces itself. It simply is.
We work in whatever scope a residence requires — from full interior architecture to a single room re-imagined — but always with the same patient hand and the same insistence on materials.
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Heritage restorations, complete renovations, new builds. Site plans, millwork drawings, lighting design, FF&E — start to finish.
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A single room, considered. Living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, libraries — re-imagined within an existing architecture.
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Long-term curation of private collections. We work with dealers, auction houses, and emerging galleries on every continent.
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Bespoke pieces designed by the atelier and built by master cabinetmakers, metalworkers, and upholsterers across Europe and Canada.
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Long-term care of completed interiors — re-upholstery, replanting, refinishing, the patient maintenance that good rooms quietly require.
A working palette. We source from the same handful of European mills, marble yards, and brass foundries we've used for two decades.
Libeco · undyed
Upholstery · Curtains
Pure Belgian flax
Curtains · Slipcovers
Mulberry silk blend
Sofas · Banquettes
Maison Pierre Frey
Rugs · Throws
Honed · Carrara
Kitchens · Baths
Unlacquered · aged
Hardware · Lighting
Unfilled · honed
Floors · Bathrooms
Limewash · troweled
Walls · Ceilings
Good interiors are a conversation that unfolds over seasons. We never accelerate a project beyond what the materials can bear, and we never substitute to meet an arbitrary deadline.
Maison Verdier was founded in Paris in 2001 by Isabelle Verdier, after twelve years inside a Pierre Yovanovitch–trained atelier on rue de Lille. The Toronto studio opened in 2014. Between the two cities, the practice has never grown beyond ten people — by choice. Every project is led by a principal who is on site weekly. We don't subcontract design. We don't outsource installation. We take on no more than eight residential projects in any given year.
If you visit either atelier, you'll find an unhurried room. A long oak table. Bouclé samples. Brass hardware. A pot of strong coffee at eleven and red wine at six. The work is the conversation. The conversation is the work.
Each principal leads no more than two projects at a time. Every meeting is taken by a principal — never an account manager.
Founding Principal · Paris
In practice since 1996
Principal · Paris
At the atelier since 2008
Principal · Toronto
At the atelier since 2014
Senior Associate · Toronto
At the atelier since 2018
Writing on color, light, and the things we don't choose. Published when the atelier has something to say — never on a schedule.
Color · Featured Essay
There is a kind of pinkish brown — call it old plaster, call it tea-stained linen, call it the inside of a Parisian apartment in late October — that does not exist at noon. It exists only when the sun has come down to the floor and the room has gone quiet. We design for that hour, not for the photograph.
Mar 21, 2026
Materials
A short defense of Belgian flax — and the case for never matching a sofa to a wall.
Feb 18, 2026
Lighting
Lighting a room is not the same as lighting a hardware store. Three lamps you will rarely see us specify.
Jan 12, 2026
If you have a residence in mind — a first apartment, a heritage townhouse, a country retreat — write to us in your own words. We answer every inquiry personally within two weeks. We say no to most. The ones we say yes to become lifelong relationships.
By appointment, Tuesday through Saturday — Paris or Toronto.
A consultation is two hours, in person, never over Zoom. We come to your residence in the first instance, then you come to the atelier for the brief presentation. Coffee at eleven. Wine at six.
Paris · Founding Atelier
75007 Paris, France
By appointment · +33 (0)1 42 60 84 12
Toronto · North American Atelier
Toronto, ON M5V 1K2
By appointment · (416) 555-0271