The chateau of Chambord, the biggest in France's Loire Valley, will see its French formal garden restored thanks to a 3.5 million euro ($3.6 million) donation from a super-rich American financier.
Sitting on a little over 16 acres, the property is located on the border between Charente and Dordogne in southwest France, and less than an hour north of Bordeaux by train, according to the listing.
Elizabeth Bonner has been renovating the 18th-century chateau, located in Orne, Normandy, since she and her husband purchased it in 2005. Over the past several years, the Baltimore-based Bonner family ...
“In the cycle of seasons, spring takes its turn,” writes Karina Waters, the owner of the Château de Gudanes, an 18th-century property in the South of France her family has been thoughtfully restoring ...
The Los Angeles-based interior designer Timothy Corrigan found one, jumped through bureaucratic hoops to buy it and navigated the complex and challenging French preservation laws to restore it. The ...
Landscape architect André Le Nôtre is the most famous designer you’ve never heard of. His work at Vaux-le-Vicomte—the largest historic, private domaine in France—is the embodiment of the French formal ...
In Vernon, France, Château Bizzy boasts a rich history that spans centuries. Originally constructed in the 14th century, the ...