A small studio that measures twice, and says no often.
Maison Forme began in 2014 as one architect, one desk and a conviction: most renovations fail at the plan, not at the paint.
Claire Vasseur spent seven years in larger Lyon practices drawing offices and clinics before deciding that apartments deserved the same rigour. The first year was one commission — a T2 on Rue Romarin — drawn four times until the kitchen stopped fighting the light.
Twelve years on, the studio is four people and deliberately no more. We take at most nine projects a year, decline the ones we cannot serve properly, and put the reason for every refusal in writing. The refusals folder is thicker than the contracts folder, and we consider that the better reference.
“The plan is a promise. The site is where you keep it.
Lyon and roughly an hour around it: Croix-Rousse and the Presqu’île first, then Caluire, Villeurbanne, Oullins, and out to Vienne when a house earns the drive.
The atelier is open to visitors without appointment on Saturday mornings, 10:00 to 13:00. Come and touch the materials wall; the limewash sample is the one everyone strokes twice.