A onetime medieval French settlement is transformed into a bucolic bolthole by a couple from Amsterdam.
Located in Le Perche, a national park in the Basse-Normandie region, a few hours outside Paris, D’une Ile is a hotel comprised of nine cottages and a restaurant. Husband and wife team Michel Mulder and Sofie Sleumer (he’s a professional chef and she’s an interior designer) collaborated on the design of the rooms; the result is a perfect merging of their talents and a manifestation of what they love to do best.
Photography courtesy of D’une Ile.
Above: A bedroom featuring the original exposed beams with whitewashed walls and contemporary lighting.
Above: One of the Double Standard rooms features Ilse Crawford’s Two-Seater Bench with Back.
Above: The cottages are dressed in vintage furniture and accessories. The couple restored much of the furniture themselves, and some pieces are for sale to guests.
Above L: An abridged version of a bath with a hexagonal mirror and Malin Goetz amenities. Above R: Taxidermy and an empty tortoise shell accent the Grand Suite.
Above: The medieval enclave–a restaurant and nine cottages–that make up D’une Ile.
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N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on February 11, 2013.