ASPIREDESIGNANDHOME.COM 53 52 SUMMER 2026 In the owners’ bedroom, a headboard dressed in Élitis raffia wallpaper sets a tone of quiet, textural richness. Wall sconces and pendant lights by Alexandra Ferdinande of Tressages Pas Sages; bedside tables by Carl Hansen & Søn. Linen throw by Maison de Vacances; pillowcases and cushion covers by Casamance. The centerpiece of the terrazzo bathroom: the Hole bathtub, designed by Susanna Mandelli for Rexa Design, its clean, sculptural form sitting lightly against the warm, ochre-flecked walls as though it had always been there. The guest bedroom, carved from the former garage, is painted in Little Greene Olive No. 72 — a shade chosen to blur the line between room and garden. Cotton throw by Valentina Hoyos; green cushions by Maison de Vacances; patterned cushion by CFOC. Pendant lights by Golden Editions; floor lamp by GUBI. This guest bedroom, located in a former cellar, stays naturally cool through even the height of summer — a happy inheritance from its previous life. An opening was created into a new bathroom beyond. On the vintage dresser, a bust by artist Nathalie Collange and vases from La Redoute Intérieurs. Botanical artworks by Stéphanie Montagut; linen and cushions by Maison de Vacances. The bedrooms each occupy their own register. Some are intimate and layered, swathed in forest tones with pendant basket lamps; others are airy and almost architectural, with the farmhouse’s original beams running overhead like the ribs of something ancient. The green room — carved from a former garage beside the pool — is the boldest departure. “We chose green because it faces the outdoors,” Roux explains. “I wanted to create a feeling of inside- outside.” The bathrooms are spectacular — one’s terrazzo echoes the ochre of nearby Roussillon, its warm, mineral palette like the iron-rich clays of the hillsides themselves. Others are clad in beige- pink Zellige tiles with large stoneware basins, materials that feel simultaneously elemental and luxurious, as though sourced from the land rather than a showroom. Which, in spirit, they were. Outside, the transition from interior to courtyard was made effortless by extending the existing tomette tile flooring to the pool. “The circulation felt obvious,” Roux notes, and it shows. Olive trees and lavender were planted where there had been neither. The linden tree, ancient and unhurried, presides over evening aperitifs and family dinners, the gentle ritual of summer in the south of France. “Some enjoy a lazy day,” Roux describes of summers here. When asked what advice she would offer someone embarking on a similar renovation — a rural French property, a stone house with stories already written into its walls — Roux did not hesitate: Respect the spirit of the place. It is the same counsel a great vigneron might offer a young winemaker handed a storied parcel of old vines. The terroir is already there; your job is not to impose, but to get out of the way and let the place become, once again, exactly what it was always meant to be.