308: 15 Ideas for Welcoming Provence Style into Your Home & Garden
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ten years of visiting, followed by three years of construction and refurbishing, and now Shauna Varvel's family Provençal mas situated just outside of Avignon, France, is an exquisite Provençal destination to see both inside and out.
Feasting first on the thoughtfully designed and decorated property through Instagram beginning in 2018, I continued to follow her as the property named Le Mas des Poiriers as well as serving as a family home for her and her husband, their adult children and the growing grandchildren, is also now available for rent (although, likely for the most elite due to the price point - which it is worth based on the expansive grounds and thoughtful decor).
Featured in Veranda's April 2019 issue, inspiration abounds whether or not we will be able to visit and see with our own eyes, as Varvel's new book Provence Style: Decorating with French Country Flair (published by Vendome, photography Luke White) was just released earlier this month.
With today being the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, I thought what better way to celebrate the ideal season during which to visit Provence than by dedicating this week's podcast episode entirely to welcoming the Provençal decor and garden ideas into our home and lives wherever we may call home.
Having had the opportunity to receive and read Shauna's book, if you are looking for visual inspiration as well as a historical exploration of the design styles associated with Provence, Provence Style is a book you will appreciate and find incredibly resourceful.
In today's episode I have gathered 15 ideas adding a touch or a wealth of Provençal decor inspiration to our sanctuaries. Let's take a look.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for tuning in to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, the show that is part of the Simply Luxurious Life online destination. |
| 0:08.0 | Visit the blog The Simply Luxurious Life.com to find the show notes for each podcast episode as well as much more weekly content |
| 0:15.2 | to elevate your everyday and deepen your contentment from recipes motivational |
| 0:20.0 | posts videos of a cooking show, style and decor inspiration, French and British inspired |
| 0:26.0 | content, and the reader's favorite regular weekly post, This and That, which goes live on the blog every |
| 0:32.0 | Friday. |
| 0:33.0 | Now to today's episode. Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with |
| 0:49.6 | signature style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening on your commute |
| 0:55.1 | exercising working in the garden or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a cafe |
| 1:00.4 | LA thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 308th episode of the simple sophisticated and welcome to summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| 1:26.8 | We are kicking off a new season today or kind of yesterday on the 20th minute |
| 1:32.1 | into the 21st, |
| 1:32.9 | 22nd as we know, but I thought, what better episode |
| 1:37.5 | or focus of today's episode |
| 1:39.4 | than one that really puts us in the mood for summer. We're going to talk about ways to welcome |
| 1:45.9 | provincial style into your home in garden, inspired by a brand new book that has just been released, |
| 1:51.1 | and I have had the opportunity to review it. But before I get to that, |
| 1:56.3 | this week's Petit Pizir is also going to take us to Europe. It's a film I recently watched and I highly recommend I think you will enjoy as well. |
| 2:05.4 | So what are we talking about today? |
| 2:07.8 | Well, 10 years of visiting followed by three years of construction and refurbishing, and now Shana Varvel's family provincial |
| 2:15.0 | moss situated just outside of Avignon, France, is an exquisite provincial destination to see |
| 2:21.0 | both inside and out, and it has inspired largely this episode. |
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