Experiences
Activities
Eight things we arrange ourselves, with people we have worked with for years: the chef, the ceramist, the gardians, the antiques dealer, the captain. Say which one, and for when; it is booked before you arrive.
Carnet d’expériences
Activities
A morning at the market with Quentin
Quentin takes you to the market at first light, when the stalls are still going up and the producers have time to talk: cheese from the hills, the first strawberries or the last figs, bread still warm. You choose, he advises, and back in the kitchen you cook lunch together, then sit down to it under the trees. Wednesday in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; other days in the villages around.
From €200 per guest
At the wheel with Florence
Florence makes the candles you find in our houses, and she is a ceramist. She sets up her wheels in the garden or on the terrace and spends the morning with you: the clay, the water, the slow rhythm of the wheel, and the first bowl that holds. The pieces are fired in her studio and sent on to you a few weeks later. For adults and children alike, as a family or as a group of friends.
From €150 per guest
The Camargue by 4×4
A day in the Camargue in a vintage Defender, six to a car: the lagoons and the salt marshes where the fleur de sel is raked, the white horses, the black bulls, the flamingos if they are there. Lunch at a mas in the marshes, then the pink salt dunes and the wild beaches of Salin-de-Giraud, where the Rhône meets the sea. A full day, from the house and back.
From €1,050 for the day · up to six per car
Antiques with Ruth Ribeaucourt
A day in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the antiques capital of France, with the artist and gallerist Ruth Ribeaucourt, who finds things the way we do. She knows the dealers, the back rooms and the Sunday market, and she shapes the day around what you are looking for: linen, silver, a painting, a table. Lunch in one of our favourite places in the village, then the afternoon to yourselves.
From €700 for two, half a day · lunch not included
A manade in the Camargue
A family manade opens its gates: the ranch where the black bulls and the white horses are raised in near-total freedom, the gardians who work them on horseback, and the old ways kept alive alongside the new. You walk the land with the family, watch the herd being sorted, and understand why the bull is the hero here and never the victim. Children love it; so do the adults who thought they would not.
Price on request
A starred chef at your table
A celebrated chef, with one or two Michelin stars depending on who is free, comes to cook in the house. You tell us what you like and what you avoid; the chef writes a menu around it and chooses the wines. The curious are welcome in the kitchen while dinner is made, and may leave with a secret or two. For up to ten adults, and the whole evening, wherever you want the table: the dining room, the pergola, under the plane trees.
On request, depending on the chef’s availability · up to ten adults
The French table
How we lay a table in the houses, and why each thing goes where it goes: the linen, the glass, the silver, the flowers cut in the garden that morning. A morning’s class with a professional, for those who like the small gestures that make an occasion. You leave with the rules of a formal table, and the freedom to break them well. For adults and curious teenagers alike.
From €250 per class · from eight guests
A day at sea in the Calanques
From the port of Marseille or Cassis, a yacht and its captain for the day along the Calanques: white cliffs, coves you can only reach by water, a swim in each of them. Sea bobs and paddleboards on board, lunch on a private island or cooked on deck, and an ice cream on the quay at the end of a summer evening. For up to twelve; the drive from the house is arranged.
From €7,150 for the day · up to twelve guests
Tailor-made stays
Every week here is made to measure
Tell us the shape of the week. We arrange the chef, the guide, the table and the car, and we are there on the morning you arrive.