At the southern tip of Lake Garda, a villa on Sirmione’s Via Punta Staffalo spans nearly two acres of private gardens descending to the water, with a wrought-iron cancello sul lago and dock with private waterfront access.

The new head designer Matthieu Blazy’s Spring 2026 debut at the Grand Palais looked to the stars while redefining the universe of Chanel — and we’re reminded that the roots of French luxury run deep, like in the flower fields that have long supplied Chanel’s iconic perfumes near this former perfumer’s estate in Grasse, now on the market.

Set above the Somme River near Abbeville (1h40 from Paris), this 18th-century pink-brick residence is positioned atop a series of terraces with century-old greenhouses—each nearly 100 metres (328 feet) long—among the largest in private ownership in France.

On the market for the first time in over 200 years, Lake Delaware Farm dates to 1787, when Gertrude Livingston and Revolutionary War general Morgan Lewis built it while the Catskills were still largely untamed, densely forested, and home to Native American tribes.

The late, influential art-world power broker Barbara Gladstone’s Gilded Age waterfront retreat — one of the last intact turn-of-the-century shingle “summer cottages” on Long Island’s North Fork — is for sale for $12 million

Lake Como has long ranked among the most prestigious real estate markets in the world, defined by its grand waterfront properties—yet there are few comparable to the scale of this restored 19th century silk mill in Brienno.

This corner of the Vexin Normand is a gateway between Paris and Normandy — close enough for an easy city commute, yet surrounded by cobbled towns and countryside. 

In the hills outside Lucca, one of Tuscany’s grand historic estates has returned to the market with provenance few properties can match, acquired in 1836 by Caroline Bonaparte—Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sister and Queen Consort of Naples.

Built for Louise Grace—daughter of NYC’s two-time mayor and shipping magnate William R. Grace—this stuccoed Renaissance Revival cottage is a rare surviving example of an early American summer estate, set on 3,570 feet of private Maine shoreline.

This château was built in 1910 in the style of 18th-century French neoclassicism, specifically the Château de Bellevue, which was commissioned by King Louis XV for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour.