Houses in Provence are today's castles in the air.People hunt them as Tartarin hunted the lion, pursue them as they might Daudet's Arlesienne; they are precise as images, and yet are as hazy as the mirages that the dog-days set floating over the horizons of the Agachole beaches, between the pine groves and Atlantis. This hunt is mine too. My head full of fragments of the past and scraps of the future, I live in expectation of'my house in Provence,which will, when time and place provide, prove the more perfect for every hesitation on the way. This vision will be the final piece in a jigsaw puzzle of childhood and adolescent memories, for "we build the future by enlarging upon the past" (Goethe).

Houses in Provence are today's castles in the air.People hunt them as Tartarin hunted the lion, pursue them as they might Daudet's Arlesienne; they are precise as images, and yet are as hazy as the mirages that the dog-days set floating over the horizons of the Agachole beaches, between the pine groves and Atlantis. This hunt is mine too. My head full of fragments of the past and scraps of the future, I live in expectation of'my house in Provence,which will, when time and place provide, prove the more perfect for every hesitation on the way. This vision will be the final piece in a jigsaw puzzle of childhood and adolescent memories, for "we build the future by enlarging upon the past" (Goethe).

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Une maison de reve en Provence Provence de Christian Lacroix

The Provencal Dream House Pref-ace by Christian Lacroix

Ein Traumhaus in der Provence Vorwortvon Christian Lacroix

Photos: Edouard Boubat/TOP

I ntrod uction / E inleitu ng de / by / von Lisa Lovatt-Smith

La Camargue et Nimes

Pierre Lafleur Photos: Guillaumede Laubier

Une roulotte de gitans Photos:Graham Kohn

Nicolas Barrera et Inken Drozd photos:Graham Kuhn

La cabane camarguaise d'Henri Aubanel Photos: Guillaumede Laubier

Le Mas de Cacharel photos: Marianne Haas

Jean Lafont Photos: Marianne Hass

Bruno Caries Photos: Jacques Dirand

Guillemette Goelff Photos:Iacques Denarnaud

Kathy Korvin photos:Guillaume Laubier

Les Alpilles

Gerald Pellen Photos:GuillaumedeLaubier

Sir Terence Conran Photos: Christian Sarramon

IrEne et Giorgio S ilvagni Photos: Guillaume de Laubier

Un rnas en Provence Photos:GuillaumedeLaubier

Emile Garcin photos:Iacqoes Dirand

Jacques Grange Photos:Marianne Hass

Michel Klein Photos: Pascal Chevallier/TOP

Le Vaucluse

Chateau Unang Photos: Erica Lennard

Denis Colomb Photos: Erica Lennard

Le Luberon

Xavier Nicod Photos:Alexandre Bailhache

Marie-Therese et Tony Mayer Photos: Erica Lennard

Anna Bonde et Arne Tengblad photos: Deidi von Schaewen / Philippe Seulliet

Nicole de Vesian Photos: Pascal Chevallier/TOP

Chateau d'Ansouis photos: Erica Lennard

Une bastide pres d'Apt photos: erica Lennard

Daniel Vial Photos: Ierome Darblay; Deidi von Schaewen / Philippe Seulliet

Nasrine Faghih Photos: Jean-Pierre Godeaut

Rosario Moreno et Aldo Franceschini Photos: Gilles Guerin/TOP

En Pays d'Aix

Jean-Marie et Jennifer Rocchia photos: Erica Lennard

Franck Pascal et Marc Heracle Photos:Jer6meDarblay

Martine et Armand Hadida Photos: Deidivon Schaewen

Lillian Williams Photos: Deidi von Schaewen / Philippe Seulliet

Christiane et Serge Cagnolari Photos:Jerome Darblay

Le Var et I'arriere-pays nicois

<<Le chateau de mon pere>> Photos:Iean-PierreGodeaut

La maison d'un marchand d'art photos: Deidivon Schaewen

En rico N avarra photos: Jean-Pierre Godeaut / Philippe Seulliet

Arman Photos:Jean-PierreGodeaut/PhilippeSeulliet

Le facteur a cheval photos: Jean-pierre Godeaut / Philippe Seuiliet

L'atelier de Jacques Henri Lartigue Photos: Guy Hervais

Adresses et selection de brocantes

Addresses and selected <<brocantes>>

Adressen und ausgewahlte <<Brocantes>>

Bibliographie / Bibliography

Remerciements / Acknowledgements / Danksagungen