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Villa Saint Ange
Aix-en-Provence, France · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Two stone lions still watch the gate at 7 Traverse Saint-Pierre, where a chapel and convent stood before the Revolution and a bourgeois family built its hôtel particulier at the end of the eighteenth century. Jean-Brice Garella, the hotelier of the Quatre Dauphins, bought the estate in 2017 and opened Villa Saint-Ange in the summer of 2019. Architect Henri Paret led the restoration. The Salon Malmaison wears a Zuber panorama, and a heated mirror pool sits in a garden of 8,000 square metres, five minutes on foot from the Cours Mirabeau.
- Opened 2019
- Neighborhood: Saint-Pierre
- Architect: Henri Paret
About Villa Saint Ange
- Reception and four bedrooms sit in the restored bastide. The later wing holds the other rooms, the bar, and the Salon Louise de Vilmorin, named for the writer and her blue salon at the Château de Verrières.
- Chef Nadège Serret cooks from the hotel's vegetable garden and from producers nearby. Cabinetmakers and gilders, some of them marked Patrimoine Vivant, spent three years on the house.
History
Before 1789 the lieu-dit Saint-Ange held a chapel and a convent in a large park. In the last years of the eighteenth century a bourgeois family built an hôtel particulier and marked the entrance with two stone lions, which are still there. Jean-Brice Garella, who already ran the Quatre Dauphins in the Mazarin quarter, bought the estate in 2017 and opened Villa Saint-Ange in the summer of 2019, with architect Henri Paret and a long list of French workshops, among them cabinetmakers and gilders carrying the Patrimoine Vivant mark.
Guests come in through the restored bastide: reception, a private salon, the Salon Malmaison with its Zuber panoramic wallpaper, and four bedrooms upstairs. The other rooms, the bar, the restaurant, and the Salon Louise de Vilmorin, named for the writer and her blue salon at the Château de Verrières, sit in the later wing. Chef Nadège Serret cooks a Mediterranean menu from the garden on the grounds.
The setting
7 Traverse Saint-Pierre, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, just south of the centre by the Saint-Pierre cemetery, about five minutes on foot from the Cours Mirabeau. This is Aix, not the coast.
Restaurants and bars
- Âma Terra — Restaurant · Mediterranean seasonal cuisine
Experiences
- Autumn seasonal menu at Âma Terra — Autumn menu created around seasonal produce and Mediterranean flavours, launched from dinner on Thursday, September 24.
Amenities
- Provençal garden
- Terrace
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