This cosmopolitan suite lives like a Parisian apartment. With two walls of impressive original casement windows draped in a perfect French blue Pierre Frey linen, restored oak flooring, 12-foot tall ceilings, large galley kitchen, dining area, large salon, two king bedrooms, and a stunning marble-wrapped bathroom, this apartment is suited for the unhurried traveler looking to live like a Baron. The furnishings reflect an au courant translation of modern splendor with a careful juxtaposition of art from three centuries including an eighteenth-century Aubusson tapestry and a twentieth-century abstract oil, a luxurious dark velvet sofa, Saarinen dining table, and a fabulous George Haupt Louis XV style inlaid commode dated 1779 flanked by his-and-hers antique gold gilt armchairs upholstered in color blocks of citron and tourmaline linen.
The Loire Valley sunshine bursts into this delightful top floor south-facing corner suite filling it with bonne humeur and lightness. The views of the gardens and the Loire valley beyond are over-the-top spectacular. Capturing the cheerful joie de vivre feel, the furnishings are both elegant and cheeky. The separate petite salon is fitted with a recamier in gorgeous blue velvet sitting opposite a pair of eighteenth-century marquessa chairs upholstered in Jean Paul Gaultier’s irreverent Les Angelots fabric. Well suited for the new noble, the gold gilt king-size bed is layered in fine European linens and draped with a creamy silk damask canopy. Equally stunning is the bathroom with an oversized marble shower, clawfoot tub tucked between two arched casement windows and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
In the geometry and precision of neoclassical design, the center axis is paramount. This room is positioned on the north-south axis running through the center of the Château and the gardens. With a birds-eye view of the impressive cour d’honneur and the seminal gates to the property, the beauty and symmetry of architect Mathieu de Bayeux’s design are recognizable. The flooring is the original oak in a point de Hongrie design, and the walls are covered in a stunning blue damask by Zuber. The pièce de résistance is a Louis XV duchess brisée — an eighteenth-century furniture design which would have been exceedingly modern in 1764 when the Château was constructed. The bathroom has the same original oak flooring, marble-wrapped shower, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
This stunning corner suite on the first floor has beautiful views of the cour d’honneur, the village of Le Grand-Lucé and the rolling landscape of the Loire Valley beyond. The entrance is through a private sitting room — a petit salon of its own with beautiful art, authentically French furnishings and Loire Valley sunshine streaming in through the oversized casement windows. The bedroom is of a grand scale, with two queen beds layered in over-the-top European linens – opulent canopies overhead, and walls covered in a Pierre Frey archival documented wallpaper of rich jewel tones. The bathroom has a marble-clad shower and an exquisite clawfoot tub, and of course, loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
Quintessentially French, this room has been wrapped in fabulous Manuel Canovas Jardin du Luxembourg wallcovering, with the drapes on the two grand casement windows and the fabric on the canopy over the king bed, of the same pattern. The floors are original oak in a point de Hongrie design and the sitting area has a fabulous gold gilt salon set upholstered in the same Jardin du Luxembourg fabric. With a view of the cour d’honneur and the church steeple in the village of Le Grand-Lucé, and the generous use of the Manuel Canovas print – this room is incredibly chic. The bathroom has the same original oak flooring as the room, stunning marble shower and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
This sophisticated pied-à-terre lives like a fabulous Parisian apartment. The space is tremendous, with 12-foot tall open beam ceilings, point de Hongrie oak wood floors, open floor plan, two sets of magnificent casement windows with stunning garden views, dining area, sitting area, la petite cuisine, and an exquisite marble-wrapped bathroom. The furnishings are decidedly French and definitively au courant with a gorgeous painted King Louis XV style bed, dark velvet sofa, gold gilt bergère chair in a splendid Jean-Paul Gaultier floral, oak campaign table, a judicious mix of curated art — a substantial mid-twentieth century garden abstract paired with an eighteenth-century portrait and a nineteenth-century classic Parisian oil. The result is baron Jacques Pineau de Viennay’s vision, translated centuries later.
With an expansive view from the top floor of the Chateau, this beautiful corner room is the perfect spot for surveying the beauty of the formal gardens. The statue of Ceres, installed by King Louis XV as a gift to Baron Pineau de Viennay in 1764, can be seen at the far end of the parterre. The sophisticated cream palette on the walls provides a backdrop for the judicious use of Braquenié Cochinchine Vert Persan fabric. The fabric’s design, inspired by the eighteenth-century artist, Jean Baptiste Pillement (whose paintings cover the walls of the Chateau’s Salon Chinois), is a fanciful chinoiserie garden print. This room has a dining area nestled amongst arched sun-drenched windows, original oak flooring, and a gold gilt king bed layered with fine European linens. The bathroom is a delightful surprise of incredibly grand scale, with a view of its own clawfoot tub and marble-clad shower.
This top floor room claims the private northwest corner of the Chateau, with afternoon sunshine spilling in through the west-facing arched casement windows. Elevated views sweep over the charming village of Le Grand-Lucé to the idyllic Loire Valley countryside beyond. Decidedly elegant, the cream-hued walls and original oak flooring highlight the beauty of the room’s remarkable angles and architecture. Pierre Frey’s Au Bord Du Lac panoramic covers an entry wall resembling the distant view of the Chateau from the south end of the property. The king-size bed is generously draped by a canopy of creamy silk damask from the Fadini Borghi archival collection, with the pattern hailing from the Regency period. The light-filled bathroom is exquisite with a marble-clad shower, clawfoot tub set under a garden window, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
Quite possibly the most extravagant suite in Europe, and definitively irreplicable, this suite was built for Baron Jaques Pineau de Viennay and is ready to welcome the new noble. With 17-foot tall ceilings and stunning Versailles patterned oak floors, the corner bedroom is magnificent in scale and reflects centuries-old proportions. Views from the massive casement windows, to the formal gardens, are resplendent, and the light streaming in from the Loire Valley sunshine is brilliant. This suite has three entrances including a private entrance directly from the west garden, a marble-clad bathroom with garden views of its own, a petite sitting room, private library with a collection of French literature, and the pièce de résistance – the Salon Chinois, aptly named for the canvas covered walls painted in the Chinoiserie style by the artist Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 – 1808). Pillement’s work can be found at fine art museums throughout the world including the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Louvre, and covering the walls in the Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette’s private castle within the gardens of the palace of Versailles. This suite has been filled with a carefully curated art collection framed in loads of gold gilt, layered with French fabrics and furnishings, and saturated in an au courant splendor with unapologetic luxury.
Unbelievably dreamy, with walls painted the creamy pink of the Scepter’d Isle roses found throughout the Chateau’s garden, this suite is as chic as it is grand. A pair of arched casement windows allow sweeping views of the Chateau’s Cour d’Honneur, hints of the village of Le Grand-Lucé, and the French pastoral countryside beyond. Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Botanique fabric is generously used throughout, replicating the bold florals of the Chateau’s garden. With a custom cerise-toned Moissonnier desk, the separate petite salon is striking. The bathroom has a marble-clad shower, an exquisite clawfoot tub, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products. This suite can be reserved with the adjoining large two-queen suite creating a splendid 1200 square foot pied-à-terre.
With a remarkable view of the parterre in the formal garden, this room is resplendent. The walls have been covered in a Pierre Frey archival print, “Les Muses et le Lion”, originally created by Jean-Baptiste Huet around 1803. The floors are original oak in a decidedly French point de Hongrie design, and a petite canape has been placed at the window from which to contemplate the gardens and the Loire Valley beyond. The bathroom is captivating, with a grand casement window of its own, the same point de Hongrie wood flooring, marble shower, clawfoot tub and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
Unbelievably dreamy, with walls painted the creamy pink of the Scepter’d Isle roses found throughout the Chateau’s garden, this suite is both elegant and chic. A pair of arched casement windows allow sweeping views of the Chateau’s Cour d’Honneur, hints of the village of Le Grand-Lucé, and the French pastoral countryside beyond. Magnificent vermilion and gold damask paired with Jean Paul Gaultier’s Botanique fabric replicates the bold florals of the Chateau’s garden. Two gold gilt queen-sized beds face the pièces de résistance –– three eighteenth-century oil painting panels painted in the style of Jean Baptiste Pillement, rescued from a diplomat’s refurbished Parisian apartment. With a custom cerise-toned Moissonnier desk, the separate petite salon is striking. The bathroom has a marble-clad shower, an exquisite clawfoot tub, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products. This suite can be reserved with the adjoining large king suite creating a splendid 1200 square foot pied-à-terre.
Classically French and delightfully charming, this room is a treasure high above the formal gardens. The furnishings are upholstered with a Pierre Frey archival print fabric, “Les Muses et le Lion,” originally created by Jean-Baptiste Huet around 1803. The neoclassical composition of Diane the Huntress hints at what might be found in the Chateau’s forest within the medieval walls. Adding to the allure, the walls are painted a soft shade of cream with a canopy of Huet’s same sable and blue toile fabric enveloping the king-size provencal bed. The bathroom is captivating and grand, with an expansive view of its own, original white oak wood flooring, marble shower, clawfoot tub, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
Located in the northwest corner of the first floor, this stunning room is one of the most private in the Château. With views of the cour d’honneur, the village of Le Grand-Lucé, and the west gardens, there is an abundance of Loire Valley sunshine spilling in from the grand casement windows on two walls. The point de Hongrie patterned original white oak floors, 15-foot ceilings, and royal scale of this room reflect the Château’s noble pedigree. The fabulous arabesque garden toile wallcovering in shades of green with hints of gold, and king bed buried in fine European linens add a layer of fresh splendor. The bathroom is delightful with a clawfoot tub set under a garden window, separate marble-clad shower and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
With a fresh floral wallcovering enveloping the room in a stunning melee of garden color, this room is as breathtaking inside as the expansive garden view is outside. The two sets of grand casement windows — draped in a striking citron fabric, simultaneously replicates and reflects the Loire Valley sunshine. The original oak flooring is set in a historical point de Hongrie pattern with 45-degree angles that are unmistakably French, and the king bed has an exquisite canopy crown draped with the same fabric creating an enchanted enclave. The bathroom has the same stunning point de Hongrie floors, a shower wrapped in European marble, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
This suite is perfectly positioned on the pinnacle of the north-south axis that runs through this neoclassical castle and to the gardens beyond. Everything about this suite is overwhelming, beginning with the bathroom — a fabulous room of its own with exquisite garden views, marble shower, and claw foot tub. With three sets of casement windows facing the central parterre of the gardens, studying the same tableau also pondered by the profound thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, the likes of Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire, is unavoidable. The suite is lavish with its French blue painted paneled walls, and original point de Hongrie patterned oak flooring, a defined sitting area with furnishings covered in today’s most stunning fabrics, and a king bed, stacked with impossibly extravagant white European linens with a decidedly French canopy overhead adding just the right amount of majesty.
Reportedly a favorite throughout the centuries, this room quite possibly is enchanted. With the perfect location in the southwest corner of the Château, the view of the gardens is splendid. The statue of Ceres, installed by King Louis XV as a gift to Baron Pineau de Viennay in 1764, can be seen at the far end of the formal parterre. The walls are covered in a classic French toile, in a quintessentially French blue, and the floors are original oak in a historical point de Hongrie pattern. The king bed is layered with fine European linens, with a fabulous canopy crown overhead draped in striking French fabrics, also in shades of blue. The bathroom is a delightful surprise of incredibly grand scale, with a view of its own, clawfoot tub, marble-clad shower, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
This room is breathtaking with its jewel-toned Pierre Frey wall covering inspired by the Montgolfier brothers’ first hot air balloon flights in the late 18th century. This arabesque pattern is a recreation of illustrations of the flight from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris in 1783, initially completed in woodblock. With expansive views of the garden through the two sets of grand casement windows, nearly 15-foot tall ceilings, historical point de Hongrie patterned original wood flooring, defined sitting area with an empire-style daybed, king bed layered in fine European linens with a canopy crown lavishly draped in silk, this suite is decidedly noble. The bathroom has stunning marble floors, a marble shower, delightful clawfoot tub, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
With its entrance tucked off the landing of a seemingly secret back staircase, this suite feels magical from the start. The door opens to Pierre Frey’s Au Bord Du Lac panoramic, which remarkably resembles the distant view of the Chateau from the south end of the property. Decidedly elegant, the cream-hued walls and original oak flooring highlight the beauty of the suite’s remarkable angles and architecture. The petite salon has a built-in settee over which hangs an exquisite 18th-century painting of a lovely maiden in repose with her companion dog and sheep, quite likely set in the Loire valley countryside. Anchoring the expansive view from the corner arched casement windows is the 11th-century church in the quintessentially French village of Le Grand-Lucé. The bathroom is delightful with a clawfoot tub, separate marble-clad shower, and loads of Maison Caulières bath and beauty products.
