City Cats & Countrylife À La Canourgue
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
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Contributor post service past times Deborah Beau of Kickcan & Conkers
Follow that cat!
Town or country? It's years since I've lived inward a city, correct inward the centre where the activity 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 besides enjoying the unpolluted, star-lit skies far out inward the country. I alive inward a minor hamlet inward the South of French Republic right away as well as oftentimes moan that I'm a urban heart as well as someone 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 inward Montpellier would arrange me fine...
I did alive hither once, a long fourth dimension ago, as well as I nonetheless dear the whole 'quartier'. Beautiful architecture, beautiful apartments, beautiful shops, all really tempting. It's an elegant square, abode to antique dealers, pattern shops, police 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 travel 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 thence 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 guide 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 unopen to of y'all may already guide maintain seen at French flea markets.
I ever appear to come upwards away amongst a lilliputian 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 occupation amongst local artists equally much equally possible as well as I noticed unopen to really cool recycled lamps as well as tyre mirrors when I nipped inward at that topographic point terminal week.
Make certain y'all guide maintain a proficient await at the store counter/desk covered amongst onetime sheets of zinc if y'all ever larn the gamble to visit. It was made past times a local artisan, who besides designed the store owners' kitchen (yes, I asked for his address!).
You'll notice Terres Anciennes along the Rue du Palais, it's petite but total of surprises. Somewhere to pass your bag coin on vacation inward the southward of France.
When y'all pace exterior again, you'll travel dorsum inward the country, inward the square, the lilliputian village, la campagne en ville. And don't worry close getting lost downwards all those wonderful side streets, simply follow the truthful cat as well as I'm certain you'll travel fine!
You'll notice Terres Anciennes along the Rue du Palais, it's petite but total of surprises. Somewhere to pass your bag coin on vacation inward the southward of France.
When y'all pace exterior again, you'll travel dorsum inward the country, inward the square, the lilliputian village, la campagne en ville. And don't worry close getting lost downwards all those wonderful side streets, simply follow the truthful cat as well as I'm certain you'll travel fine!