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Fontenille Collection hotels
Restored country houses join art, vineyards and gardens, keeping farming close to the guest rooms.
Fontenille brings restored houses, art, and the pleasures of the surrounding countryside into a small collection across France, Italy, and Spain. Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher began with an abandoned eighteenth-century bastide in the Luberon, transforming it into Domaine de Fontenille, a hotel with restaurants and its own working vineyard.
14 Fontenille Collection hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas (1 not open yet), each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher
- Worldwide: 12 to 14 open properties across France, Menorca, and Tuscany, with further expansion underway
- On the atlas: 4 Grand Luxury, 1 High Luxury, 9 Core Luxury
History
Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher kept a close personal involvement in the restoration and design of Fontenille’s houses. Their interest in art, farming, and existing buildings shaped the collection as it grew. The company’s Société à Mission status later gave its social and environmental aims a formal place within the business.
Timeline
- 2015 — Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher, searching for a private country home and vineyard in Provence's Luberon, find the derelict 18th-century Domaine de Fontenille.
- 2016 — After a restoration costing more than €15 million, Domaine de Fontenille opens as a 25-room hotel with two restaurants, one of them Michelin-starred, and a working vineyard producing over 300,000 bottles a year, and Fontenille Menorca (Santa Ponsa and Torre Vella) opens the same year on the Balearic island.
- 2018 — Les Bords de Mer opens in Marseille and Les Hortensias du Lac opens in Soorts-Hossegor, the first steps beyond Provence.
- 2019 — The company begins operating what will become a Provence-to-Atlantic-coast network as the concept proves itself.
- 2021 — Domaine de Primard opens in Guainville near Paris and 70 Hectares... & l'Océan opens in Seignosse on the Atlantic coast.
- 2023 — A rapid wave of openings: Domaine de Chalamon in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, La Bastide du Mourre in Oppède, Pieve Aldina in Radda in Chianti (the collection's first Italian house), and Les Hautes Mers on the island of Île-d'Yeu.
- 2024–2025 — LVMH takes a minority stake in the group; Les Bassans opens in Perros-Guirec, Brittany, the collection's first house on the Channel coast.
The houses to know
- Domaine de Fontenille, Lauris, France — The founders' accidental first hotel, a bastide that has made wine in Lauris since 1638.
- Domaine de Primard, Guainville, France — Catherine Deneuve's Directoire château for more than thirty years, a 39-room hotel since 2021.
- Pieve Aldina, Radda in Chianti, Italy — Fontenille's first Tuscan house, the bishops of Siena's summer residence, opened in 2023.
- Torre Vella - Fontenille Menorca, Alaior, Spain — Seventeen rooms on 200 hectares of cliff, with a private kilometer of coast.
- Les Hortensias du Lac, Soorts-Hossegor, France — An Art Deco surf lodge between Lake Hossegor and the Atlantic, 400 meters from La Gravière.
- Santa Ponsa - Fontenille Menorca, Alaior, Spain — A 17th-century Menorcan finca, 22 rooms, opened in 2019.
- Les Hautes Mers, L'Île-d'Yeu, France — Twenty-five rooms on Ker Châlon beach, opened in 2023.
- Les Bords de Mer, Marseille, France — Nineteen sea-facing rooms in a 1930s Art Deco building on the Corniche Kennedy.
- Les Bassans, Perros-Guirec, France — Villa Le Sphinx on the Pink Granite Coast, Fontenille's first Brittany house, restored in 2025.
- La Bastide du Mourre, Oppède, France — A 17th-century hamlet outside Oppède-le-Vieux, reopened in 2023 with no reception desk and no restaurant.
Newest openings
- Les Bassans — Perros-Guirec, Brittany, France — opened 2025 — The collection's first house on France's Channel coast.
- Domaine de Chalamon — Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France — opened 2023.
- La Bastide du Mourre — Oppède, France — opened 2023.
- Pieve Aldina — Radda in Chianti, Italy — opened 2023 — Fontenille's first property in Italy.
Opening next
- Château de Cîteaux — Meursault, Burgundy, France — The project has been announced; further details have not been confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- The Great Carmes Aix-en-Provence — Aix-en-Provence, France — The project has been announced; further details have not been confirmed in the sources reviewed.
Every Fontenille Collection hotel on the atlas
France
- Domaine de Fontenille — Lauris · Grand Luxury
- Domaine de Primard — Guainville · Grand Luxury
- Les Hortensias du Lac — Soorts-Hossegor · High Luxury
- 70 Hectares... & l'Océan — Seignosse · Core Luxury
- Château de Cîteaux — Meursault · Core Luxury
- Domaine de Chalamon — Saint-Rémy-de-Provence · Core Luxury
- Hôtel Les Grands Carmes — Aix-en-Provence · Core Luxury · Opening soon
- La Bastide du Mourre — Oppède · Core Luxury
- Les Bassans — Perros-Guirec · Core Luxury
- Les Bords de Mer — Marseille · Core Luxury
- Les Hautes Mers — L'Île-d'Yeu · Core Luxury
Spain
- Torre Vella - Fontenille Menorca — Alaior · Grand Luxury
- Santa Ponsa - Fontenille Menorca — Alaior · Core Luxury
Italy
- Pieve Aldina — Radda in Chianti · Grand Luxury
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