Arty chic getaway

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le 9 Dec 2025

Want to clear your mind, nourish it, and help it grow? There's nothing like a house designed as a showcase for artists' works, a house where art takes center stage. Come on, let yourself be carried away by the talents that have come together in these eight decidedly arty houses.

Allez hop off to Montclus, chez Rémy & Marc Etienne-Coussedière

This farmhouse had been abandoned for a long time and was just waiting to be brought back to life. That's what these lovers of old stones, travel, art (in all its forms, but especially the eighth art—photography), contemporary architecture, and friends gave it.

Five rooms, from €180, and two houses (for two), from €360. Ages 15 and up

Allez hop off to Soleto, chez Andrew Trotter & Marcelo Martínez

In this village in Puglia, time sometimes seems to have stood still. And it had been suspended in this palazzotto for 20 years. When architect Andrew Trotter stumbled upon the real estate ad one day in September 2020, he knew nothing about Soleto but understood...

4 bedrooms, for up to 9 people, from €4,900 per week (€8,500 in summer)

Allez hop off to Aulas, chez Laurence Lepetit & Dramandra Khassar

This house could have been just a fantasy. A dream where a visual artist and color specialist, a nose, a lover of Provence, artists, photographers, painters, and musicians, memories, travels, escapes, and heroes all come together...

5 bedrooms, starting at €150 per night

Allez hop off to Lectoure, chez Christèle Ageorges-Delance

Christele Ageorges, a long-time interior designer for glossy magazines, turned this former tannery in the Gers region, a former royal factory built in the mid-18th century by Pierre Racine, into a dream. It was a long-term dream, as it took three years of work...

5 rooms, starting at €280

Allez hop off to Ostend, chez Albane Paret & Micha Pycke

Ostend was once known as the Queen of Beaches, and some still call it that today. A stone's throw from Arne Quinze's astonishing “Rock Strangers,” a couple designed their apartment overlooking the North Sea as a manifesto...

For up to 5 people, from €280 per night

Allez hop off to Marseille, chez Emmanuelle Luciani

Curator and art historian Emmanuelle Luciani has taken over a late 19th-century pavilion in a former suburb of Marseille, close to the Calanques. It's the ideal setting for exploring the relationship between art, craftsmanship, and domestic life...

2 bedrooms, from €140

Allez hop off Outeiro das Freiras, chez Vitor Borges & Franck Laigneau

There is something of a manifesto about this hotel in the heart of Alentejo. It was supposed to be a vacation home, but then they got carried away. It took five years of work to transform this place, which was once home to monks...

Five suites and three rooms, some with private pools, starting at €270