BIOGRAPHY OF A ROOM

A Venetian palazzo in the middle of Provence—that’s how the late fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro described his family home in France’s Luberon mountains. Now the villa has reopened as La Cavalerie, a picturesque private rental.

- —Sean Santiago

The property—anchored by a 12th-century knight’s stronghold, with an adjacent 17th-century farmhouse and surrounding olive groves—has been lovingly restored by Ungaro’s daughter Cosima and her husband Austin Feilders. The couple launched the Paris-based creative studio Concept in 2019, with clients including LVMH and Zara Home. After Ungaro’s death the same year, Cosima inherited the estate, which meant so much to her father. “This place is a gift,” she says, “because he still so