The bastide of Monpazier, founded in 1284 by will of Edward I, king of England, is classified among the most beautiful villages in France, and has maintained its original appearance and dimensions almost intact, presenting itself to visitors today as an authentic jewel of medieval architecture.
The building transformed into a boutique hotel has gone through 8 centuries of history in a continuum of stratifications (noble palace, then bourgeois house, finally hotel), some of which have hidden - and sometimes destroyed - traces of previous eras.
Our aim was to bring some of these traces back to light, restoring an identity value to the building but, at the same time, making it dialogue with contemporaneity, bringing it back to life, reconnecting the threads of its history with those of our present.
Almost two years of work under the watchful eye of the Bâtiments de France, more than 15 companies involved, sophisticated consolidation interventions, and above all an idea of functional integration that is anything but camouflage, have produced harmonious spaces where history and contemporaneity are enhanced reciprocally.
