Living in Provence

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Provence, an ancient cultural landscape in southeastern France, offers an unparalleled landscape of longing. Under its sun, everything becomes soft and insignificant. Cicadas chirp, the sun glows over rooftops, and red wine provides fleeting insights. Everywhere, there are photographic motifs of everyday beauty: endless lavender fields, whitewashed facades of the Camargue, Roman monuments, the mountains of Luberon, medieval old towns, and the picturesque Calanques along the Mediterranean. This region has inspired numerous writers such as Alphonse Daudet and Albert Camus, as well as painters like Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, who repeatedly painted Montagne Sainte-Victoire. The book presents the most beautiful homes and interiors of Provence, described informatively and illustrated with new photographs. Picturesque villages on rocky slopes, tiled rooftops, idyllic gardens filled with olive trees, and the delicate lavender hues come together to create a multifaceted image of a world where only the Mistral limits the dream of eternal summer.