Modern Boho

You Know To Expect The Unexpected In Marie Christophe’s French Farmhouse, Where Her Whimsical Wire Sculptures Sit Happily With Design Classics, Vintage Wallpapers And Flea-market Finds

- Jenny Tucker

IT IS EARLY MORNING, ON THE CUSP OF A GLORIOUS SPRING DAY WITH ITS PROMISE OF INDISCRIMINATE TURQUOISE SKIES, and sculptor Marie Christophe is already wandering in her garden. It’s artichoke season and her vegetable plot is ripe for harvesting. She plans to pick her crops, carry them to her kitchen where she’ll turn them into a delicious risotto for her family, and then, together, they will gather for lunch on the outside terrace (with its jaw-dropping view of the hills) to relish the fruits of their land. And to think there was a time when Marie was against living here

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‘I know, it seems crazy now,’ she laughs. ‘My husband found the house and fell in love with it immediately. I thought it was too remote and too big. It took two years for me to be persuaded to move here from Paris. And, to be honest, at first, I did it for him. But now, I have lived here for four years and I am totally enamoured with it.’

It seems impossible to imagine anyone not being enchanted by this carte postale