The Fondation Maeght in St Paul de Vence, France, is one of my favourite places on earth. There are cool tiled floors and shady glens. Shallow pools with trickling fountains and lily pads. Red brick and understated whites and greys, punctuated with pops of red, blue and yellow. If I won the lottery, I would recreate something similar as my holiday home - modernist architecture, perched on a hill, surrounded by cicada-filled cyprus forests, and packed with beautiful art.
Actually, I sometimes think the art is the least interesting thing about it but I go regardless of the current exhibition, more to soak in the atmosphere, to view the permanent collection sculpture garden (Miro, Calder, Giacometti, Chagall, Braque, Hepworth), and to close my eyes really tightly hoping beyond hope that when I open them it will have magically become my abode.
Never happens. I'll keep going back until it does.
oh yes it looks like heaven. Wow lottie your photography here is gorgeous. I love the one of A on the windowsill. What editing tool do you use? I need some inspiration.x
ReplyDeleteThanks Lou, means a lot - I've been trying much harder with my photography since the Capturing Childhood course. Haven't really edited these much at all, just a few crops here and there in PS. I think much of the credit needs to go to the beautiful French light ;)
DeleteI always feel that way about Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. Have you ever been? It is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to go. We visited friends in Cambridge this year and I was desperate to go, but their opening hours didn't work for us, alas. Another time...
DeleteO wow, it really is lovely. Your pictures are beautiful -- that one of your son dabbling his feet in the pool is pure tranquility.
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