This interior can be viewed like the two sides of a playing card. And with good reason: Ronit Pardo and Julien Drach live together, yet not together. She smokes and walks her dog Hanouca over to his home, just a few streets away, a source of furniture and objects from the past for collectors, interior designers and interested private individuals. He takes photographs, collects ashtrays and tins, and lives in a cosy, intimate setting, but feels just as at home with her, surrounded by her garnet-red walls, her marble marquetry floor created by Dimore to match the stained-glass windows of this historic building, her brass kitchen and her love of the unusual โ which he shares โ of all periods, nationalities and curiosities.
Follow The Socialite Family. I love decor and furniture, I adore bargain-hunting and am lucky enough to be able to do it for others โ I curate vintage furniture and objects. I got into the habit of going to flea markets, rue de Lille, the big galleries and fairs.
It took quite a while but little by little I taught myself how to know if a purchase was worth it or not. Bit by bit, the set-up became more professional and around five years ago expanded to interior design projects where designers would call on my services. I create images. I often think of my photos as paintings. I use my camera like I would paint brushes. In short, I produce images.
Cocteau said they are branches from the same tree! After having very quickly dropped out from my law studies, I left for New York when I was nearly 20 years old. This is where I took courses in acting and cinema. This was when I began to take an interest in pictures.
For twenty years, I have no longer been acting, having gladly switched from in front of to behind the camera. It keeps me occupied day and night.
