A 60-Acre Provençal Estate Transformed by Leading Restoration Architects
Just outside Aix-en-Provence, a 60-acre Provençal estate has been transformed from a former farmhouse into a classical bastide by Lafourcade Architects, the family atelier regarded as one of France’s foremost authorities on Provençal restoration. It’s now on the market for €17,750,000, listed with Emile Garcin.
The Lafourcade family — Bruno, Dominique, and their son Alexandre — are among the most respected names in Provençal architecture. From their atelier in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, they have specialised for more than four decades in restoring and reimagining bastides, châteaux, and historic estates across southern France. Their work has been featured in Architectural Digest France, Maisons Côté Sud, and Campagne Décoration, with AD France describing it as “a benchmark for Provençal elegance.” Their portfolio spans bastides, wine estates, and châteaux across Provence and the South of France, including Domaine de Fontenille and Château de Berne.
Bruno Lafourcade, often described as an architecte-paysagiste or artist-gardener, built the studio’s reputation through his sculptural approach to landscape composition. Dominique Lafourcade — his wife and creative counterpart — brought architectural structure and aesthetic direction to the practice, shaping interiors and façades with a restraint that has become synonymous with Provençal elegance. Today, Alexandre Lafourcade, their son, continues the tradition through meticulous restorations and new builds inspired by regional heritage.
The current owners commissioned the Lafourcade atelier to reimagine a rural property as a bastide aixoise — a traditional Provençal manor that balances heritage form with modern craftsmanship. The transformation extended beyond the architecture to the landscape itself: new gardens designed by Dominique Lafourcade feature a formal layout, a maze, and a newly planted olive grove that echo the natural rhythm of the surrounding hills.
The estate now spans roughly 839 m² (9,030 ft²) of living space across the main six-bedroom bastide and a four-bedroom guest house, and includes two swimming pools. Interiors have been finished to the atelier’s hallmark standard — refined materials, natural symmetry, and subtle integration of light.
Outdoors, the property includes two swimming pools, tennis and basketball courts, a vegetable garden, and terraces overlooking Mont Sainte-Victoire — the limestone peak immortalised in the paintings of Paul Cézanne, whose depictions of the mountain came to define the visual identity of Provence.
Rather than restoring a historic Lafourcade property, the project represents a new collaboration between the family firm and the owners — a contemporary interpretation of Provençal living that continues the atelier’s legacy of harmony between architecture, landscape, and light.
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