Recently, reader Nicola Fabens (whose house was featured in A Brooklyn Brownstone Transformed, with Respect) wrote to us from a trip through France to let us know about Maison Collongue, a guesthouse where she was staying, on a 10-acre property with lime trees in the Luberon region of France.
But transformed by owner Guillaume Toutain, a former art director (who once also studied architecture), the interiors are distinctly modern eclectic: “20th-century vintage Scandinavian furniture and 21st-century comfort.” “There is nothing kitschy about it,” Fabens reports.
The rooms in the farmhouse are connected by stone archways.
Details of the old Provençal architecture.
Framed and lit contemporary art gives the dining room the feel of an eclectic gallery.
Mix-and-match vintage chairs and a midcentury sideboard in the dining room.
The living room has mixes utilitarian reading lamps with soaring ceilings and plaster walls.
Well-worn steps lead to a narrow hallway with a vintage French school chair.
Each of the five guest rooms is outfitted in all-white linens, walls, floors, and curtains. (Note the way the guest towels are rolled at the end of the bed.)
Moments of blue in the guest rooms.
The bold Chambre Bastine, with lofty ceilings, a black-and-white rug, and a vignette of blue bottles.
Design and architecture books, stacked artfully on built-in shelves.
In the Grande Chambre, two multicolor rag rugs ground the otherwise all-white bedroom.
Each guest room is outfitted with “linen sheets, natural feather pillows, linen and silk duvets, Italian showers, and linen waffle towels.” Here, the silhouette of simple black standing lamps against white linens.
Breakfast is served in the garden every morning.
“The property is surrounded by fields, vineyards and olive groves set against the backdrop of the Luberon hills,” according to the website, including “a fountain fed by water from a natural spring.” Here, the 40-foot pool.