Playing with geometric lines, materials, colours.....for all forms of project, surprising the eye is almost mandatory. Here, a dressing table is silhouetted against a background of stone and distressed oak. Here again, a floor rolls out a dark carpet of hexagons across a thousand pale shades of terracotta tile.

"The detail is equally important". Like the work of a master craftsman, it is a question of highlighting the decor through careful choice and fittings that are both practical and beautiful. Complementary bathroom taps, or a deep-fryer integrated into a Molteni stove, ceiling lights specially tracked down for a particular spot, or a wine cellar, made to order from old oak casks.... it's the little things that make the difference.

To make the harmony of a place sing, the interior and the exterior must play in unison. An 18th century metal gate, or an archway are simply reference points on a musical score which continues it's refrain into the garden. And life under the Provençal sun is naturally arranged around a swimming pool and a pool-house, that seem always to have been there.

With a penchant, rooted in their hearts, for combining architecture with landscape, Sara and Jean-Luc like to plant old cobblestones near the houses they have designed or restored. Like a final touch allowing nature to regain control of mankind, where the cobbles grow freely, where weeds overrun the stone, take hold and finish by escaping into the neighbouring fields.

Like Provençale beauties who protect their pretty complexions from the sun under great hats, the houses designed by Sara and Jean-Luc are crowned by natural wicker pergolas. These golden twigs let showers of sunlight pass through at midday but are just as effective at providing shelter from an unexpected shower.

 “We are constantly listening to our customers. Sometimes we revisit their childhood with them and give shape to their imagination…” adding a touch of inventiveness or extravagance, if necessary! Why not combine work and pleasure and design an office-garage worthy of the passion of a collector.