
Marie-France Boyer
Associate Editor, Paris at The World of Interiors
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
worldofinteriors.com | Marie-France Boyer |Ivan Terestchenko
If the Russians, Canadians and Scandinavians have been building log cabins since the Bronze Age, it is largely because of the plentiful green-trunked coniferous forests surrounding them, supplying more than enough wood than they could want. A family can build a log cabin in a day, an impossible feat with bricks and mortar.
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2 months ago |
worldofinteriors.com | Marie-France Boyer |Bruno Suet
On a small road in Provence that winds its way through ochre hills covered with holm oaks, a hand-painted sign points to Mas de la Crémade, which can just be made out in the distance. We’re about 30km from Avignon, and ten from L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the home of many dealers of the usual kinds of antiques. Yet we feel as if we’re in the middle of nowhere.
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Mar 10, 2025 |
worldofinteriors.com | Marie-France Boyer
It is hard to visit Porto without coming face to face with the Casa Hortícola. This delightful store selling seeds and bulbs is part of a large early 19th-century Neoclassical complex that includes the Bolhão market. While the stalls are still popular, it’s now a pale reflection of what it was 30 years ago: colourful, exotic and teeming with people. Beneath an openwork gallery you will still find fish – sardines and octopus – cheese, a particularly tasty bread, fruit and flowers for sale.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
worldofinteriors.com | Marie-France Boyer
Somewhere between Nîmes and Avignon, Jean-René de Fleurieu lives in Château de Montfrin, overlooking a village of the same name. Despite its classic Baroque façade, what awaits inside is a byzantine architectural puzzle. Initially consisting of a Medieval house built around a seventh-century square tower, by the 18th century it had gradually evolved into the château we see today, with its outbuildings and gardens attributed to JH Mansart, great-nephew of the eponymous roof man.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
worldofinteriors.com | Marie-France Boyer
Although there are more than 150 shops in Paris listed as historic monuments, these are often really just fronts or signs. Only some bakeries, cafés and chemist’s have kept their interior décor and furniture. Fewer still have retained their original function; the wonderful engraver Stern, for example, has become a restaurant. One of the most elegant survivors of an increasingly bygone era, as formal and sophisticated as a museum, is the chocolate shop Debauve & Gallais at 30 Rue des Saints-Pères.
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