Château de
La Rivière
The person who walks you through the house is the same person who spent years putting it back together.
Most old French houses open to guests are one of two things: a hotel wearing a château as a costume, or a private house quietly running out of money. This is neither. It is a building that was taken apart and put back together, slowly, by the people who live in it, and you can see the seams if you know where to look — which is the best part.
What stays with people isn't the moat or the ceilings. It's that nobody is performing hospitality at you. You are in someone's house. Dinner happens at a table, not a covered service. The restoration gets explained by the person who did it, in the room where it happened.
I've spent a lot of nights here. I've also shot here, which is how I know what the light does at the end of the afternoon on the west side — it's the reason I stopped photographing the façade and started photographing the windows from inside.
If this one is your kind
of place.
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else
Tell them
I sent you.
Book directly through the house. If you're planning something bigger than a weekend — a gathering, a shoot, a wedding — write to me first and I'll make the introduction properly.