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itting pretty in the heart of the French capital city, The Shift is a modern, contemporary abode designed by Nicolas Berthou, the founder designer of B3R2 Design, a Parisbased feng shui design studio with a main goal to “create harmony in your residence”. The design of the Parisian apartment, Bertahou said, reflects the home owner’s personality through his own life changes both on the professional and personal levels. “He was leaving a very rational, cartesian, immaterial work environment to join a world of concrete creation and achievement.” Once Berthou had identified which feng shui school of thought best suited the owner and his dwelling, he (Berthou) set about incorporating the principles and elements into the design. Interior decoration, said Berthou, is a discipline that strives to arrange spaces suited
to the personality of the home owner, just like Feng Shui whose end is to enable the occupants of a place to express both their personal and professional potential in full. “The perfectly complementary nature of these two disciplines allows B3R2 Design to open up its projects to new possibilities by bridging the world of decoration, design, architecture on the one hand with that of the well-being and health on the other.” As Feng shui is primarily about the flow of energy and how placement of objects within a space affects the energy flow of a living space, and their influence a person’s own energy flow, Berthou decided to use the principle of Yin and Yang (one of feng shui fundamental principles) to give the abode concrete substance. “We did this by interlacing very structured flat tints of colour with a very freely inspired decorative painting, and used some very
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