Founded on restraint.
Maison Ardoise was founded by Céline Marchand in 2014 with a simple conviction: the most luxurious homes are the calmest ones.
Raised in Lyon, Céline trained in architecture before spending eight years restoring apartments in Paris, where she learned to read a room's proportions before touching its finishes. She moved to the Hudson Valley in 2013 and opened the studio on Warren Street a year later.
Today the studio is a small team of designers working between Hudson and Paris. We take on a limited number of homes each year — new builds, restorations and the occasional country house — and Céline leads every one personally.
Ardoise is French for slate: the dark, durable stone of old rooftops. It is our reminder to choose materials that weather beautifully.
Céline Marchand
Three principles
Light first
We study how sun moves through a home across a full day before choosing a single colour. Every decision follows the light.
Honest materials
Lime plaster, solid oak, stone, wool and linen. Materials that age, mark and soften — and look better for it.
Edit, then edit again
Fewer, better pieces, chosen slowly. Rooms should leave space for the things you will collect over a lifetime.
Warren Street, Hudson
Our studio is a former dry-goods shop with tall windows and a long oak table where every scheme is sketched by hand and laid out in real samples. Visits are by appointment.
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