City Cats & Countrylife À La Canourgue
Contributor ship past times Deborah Beau of Kickcan & Conkers
Follow that cat!
Town or country? It's years since I've lived inwards a city, correct inwards the centre where the activeness is, I mean. London, Paris, Montpellier, from pokey pupil bedsits to chic, leafy light-green surburbs, I've done it all, loving the brilliant lights but too enjoying the unpolluted, star-lit skies far out inwards the country. I alive inwards a modest hamlet inwards the South of French Republic straightaway as well as oftentimes moan that I'm a metropolis daughter at heart. Mmm, one-half as well as half, I think. I demand to strike a happy medium, yes, living somewhere similar La Place de la Canourgue inwards Montpellier would conform me fine...
I did alive hither once, a long fourth dimension ago, as well as I withal dear the whole 'quartier'. Beautiful architecture, beautiful apartments, beautiful shops, all real tempting. It's an elegant square, abode to antique dealers, pattern shops, police pull firms, existent estate agencies as well as cafés, perfect for people-watching when the Sun comes out.
RBC Structures
Boutiques come upwards as well as go, of course. La Place de la Canourgue is a sought-after location, c'est la campagne en ville, as well as rents must move high. Places definitely worth visiting include RBC Structures, La Galérie 17, Vues d'Intérieurs as well as the lovely Farrow & Ball stockist Aux Couleurs du Temps.
And thus there's Terres Anciennes, a favourite of mine. It's tiny, "no room to swing a cat", equally they say, but a well-organised, happy jumble of onetime as well as novel finds for all pockets. You'll demand as well as desire to conduct maintain your time, peculiarly if the shop's busy. As its refer suggests, Terres Anciennes is well-known for its collection of 19th Century everyday, functional pottery, which to a greater extent than or less of you lot may already conduct maintain seen at French flea markets.
I e'er look to come upwards away alongside a piffling process - a novel coat hanger, a lather dish, tabular array mats, zinc cutouts as well as decorative ornaments to hang upwards high - as well as I actually dear their alternative of handmade products. Colette & Sylvain Jouannet endeavor to piece of job alongside local artists equally much equally possible as well as I noticed to a greater extent than or less real cool recycled lamps as well as tyre mirrors when I nipped inwards at that topographic point final week.
Make certain you lot conduct maintain a expert await at the store counter/desk covered alongside onetime sheets of zinc if you lot ever larn the run a peril to visit. It was made past times a local artisan, who too designed the store owners' kitchen (yes, I asked for his address!).
You'll honour Terres Anciennes along the Rue du Palais, it's petite but total of surprises. Somewhere to pass your bag coin on vacation inwards the due south of France.
When you lot footstep exterior again, you'll move dorsum inwards the country, inwards the square, the piffling village, la campagne en ville. And don't worry close getting lost downwards all those wonderful side streets, only follow the truthful cat as well as I'm certain you'll move fine!
You'll honour Terres Anciennes along the Rue du Palais, it's petite but total of surprises. Somewhere to pass your bag coin on vacation inwards the due south of France.
When you lot footstep exterior again, you'll move dorsum inwards the country, inwards the square, the piffling village, la campagne en ville. And don't worry close getting lost downwards all those wonderful side streets, only follow the truthful cat as well as I'm certain you'll move fine!
