The great-great-grandaughter of Victor Hugo has conjured a bohemian home from a sheep barn on the rustic estate where she grew up in a sphere of luminaries including Picasso, Cocteau and Beaton
Marooned with no driving licence in the Orléans countryside, the contemporary art specialist indulges his passions for the 17th…
A divorce inspired a move to a belle-époque cottage by the river Seine. A canny use of space and colour has turned it into a…
The writer and critic curates a new exhibition that portrays the ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ author through artworks that evoke her spirit
The correspondence between the writer and the actress charts the passionate highs and bitter lows of their 16-year relationship
From a historic cave property with an infinity pool carved into rock to a traditional mas set in lavender fields and olive groves
Colour, scale, surprise and fantasy are in full flow in a reimagined 17th-century Kent home
