Kitchen & hearth
Interiors & Stays — Provence
Spaces that breathe.
Six restored farmhouses on the Luberon hills — lime plaster, salvaged walnut, and a deliberate lack of things.
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43.8333° N / 5.1667° E
The house
We build rooms
that age well.
Not new rooms made to look old. We take buildings that have already survived a hundred summers, repair them honestly, and furnish them with what the valley could not use anymore.
Nothing is designed to survive a season. Everything here is meant to look better in ten years than it does today.
How we build- 06 Houses restored
- 214 Original windows
- 01 Working olive press
- 2016 First house opened
The houses
Four we can show you.
Two further houses are still being plastered and will open in the spring. Ask us
Walnut, unprocessed — 180 years old, salvaged from a mill shuttered in 1974.
The workshop
Four stages.
Eighteen months.
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Source, not specify
Walnut from a shuttered mill in Apt. Stone from the hill the house sits on. Nothing arrives on a pallet with a barcode.
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Plaster by hand
Nine coats, trowelled by one mason who has never worked on a house twice. Six weeks of curing between each.
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Less, but better
Twenty pieces to a room. No matching pairs, no suite sold as a set, nothing that cannot be mended with a needle.
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Let it settle
We furnish only after the house has stood through a full summer empty. The building decides what it needs.
Journal
Notes from the valley.
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12 Mar 2026
Build
Why we wait a summer before furnishing anything
6 min -
28 Feb 2026
Materials
Lime, sand, water: nine coats of a wall you can repair
4 min -
09 Jan 2026
Place
A field guide to the olive varieties still grown here
11 min -
18 Nov 2025
Kitchen
The oil press runs from October to January
3 min
Visit
Come for the weekend.
Stay until the light changes.
The valley is twenty minutes from Apt. We can arrange the press to run while you are here — it is not a demonstration, just a November.
Reception
Route de Céreste, 84480 Apt
Open
March — November
Telephone
+33 4 90 00 11 46