French Houses

It is fitting that Bernar Venet's home-cum-gallery in Provence is accommodated in a former mill and factory, with their industrial past forming a direct link with his monumental steel sculptures

We take a look at the magical atmosphere the late Robert Kime and his wife Helen created at La Gonette, his country house in France

In an extract from Flammarion's new book anthologising designer Tino Zervudachi's work, Natasha A. Fraser offers a sneak peek into a restored family château in France

Take inspiration from Marianne Evennou’s creative use of colour and choice of flexible furniture to enhance the proportions and maximise space in this Paris apartment

An English banker and a well-known muse have transformed an ordinary Provençal farmhouse into something remarkable

In an extract from Coming Home to Nature: The French Art of Countryfication, meet a couple who upped sticks and moved to the French countryside

In an edited extract from her book 'Provence Style', Shauna Varvel explains how her own house in Provence, Le Mas des Poiriers, came to be the beautiful, beloved family house it now is

In an extract from his eponymous book on his interiors, we take a look around designer Pierre Yovanovitch's spectacular château in Fabrègues in the south of France

Since he was a child, Russell Pinch’s family has been restoring a sleepy hamlet in western France. Now he and his wife Oona Bannon have transformed the last building, an old cowshed, into a holiday house filled with their elegant furniture

Taken on as a life-changing project by an antiques dealer and his husband, an unloved 19th-century chateau in the Périgord has been revived with exuberant colour, pattern and texture

The English buyers of a dilapidated, seaside house on Cap Ferret knew how they wanted to use it. A collaboration that included a local and a London architect resulted in their perfect holiday retreat

When it came to restoring and decorating his tiny Parisian apartment, designer Fabrizio Casiraghi called on his three favourite elements and balanced them perfectly

In an extract from 'Be My Guest' by the designer Pierre Sauvage, founder of Casa Lopez, we visit the French home of fabric designer Manuel Canovas and his wife Catherine.

In an extract from 'Jacques Grange: Recent Work' by Pierre Passebon, we take a look around the interiors of the author's eclectic, exuberant apartment in Paris

Over the past 20 years, British Vogue’s well-travelled former fashion director Lucinda Chambers has filled her house near Toulouse with an eclectic mix of colourful flea-market finds

On a rocky hillside in the Languedoc, with its fierce summer heat and torrential autumn storms, this rough stone farmer barn is now a comfortable retreat from their busy London lives for its interior-designer owner and his partner

Looking for a retreat from their busy London life, the textiles dealer Susan Deliss fell for this house in rural Burgundy, and renovated it in keeping with its surroundings, thoughtfully choosing art, colours and interesting patterns that bring it to life

The Parisian flat of fashion designer Andrew Gn displays an eclectic combination of traditional French style and twentieth-century chic.

When Imogen Taylor, principal decorator of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, was due to retire after a long and glorious career in interior design, she took on a personal project – transforming a house for herself in a picturesque Burgundy village