Is it possible to build a Provencal bastide today according to the rules of the art of the Grand Siècle?
The Bérengère Leroy architectural firm builds your Provençal bastide according to the highest standards.
With a little more time, passion and know-how, it is now possible to build a bastide entirely in the style of the Great Provençal Bastides of the 18th century, with the ultimate goal that once the construction is completed, no visitor can tell that it is a new building.
The Bérengère Leroy architectural firm has already completed several projects of this type, which have spanned several years, the time required for more careful and delicate finishes as well as for the implementation of old materials, which necessarily takes longer.
Passionate about the Grand Style of the 18th century which has given us our most beautiful architectural achievements, Bérengère Leroy is particularly expert and talented in the field and can bring you her know-how as well as her network of exceptional craftsmen essential for such projects.
The architects Bérengère Leroy will be able to produce all the architectural sketches necessary for the project study, then draw all the architectural details that will give it its essential character:
- Corner chains
- Bull's eyes
- Window frames
- Frames
- Pediments
- Bodyguard
- balconies
- Etc ...
These elements will then be reissued and patinated in the old-fashioned way by exceptional stonemasons.
The Bérengère Leroy architectural firm will then ensure that the lime plaster is particularly well done and applied in several passes in the old style; only a few craftsmen still master this know-how, most of today's plasters being machine-made plasters that provide neither relief nor depth.
Certain essential elements such as roof tiles, old King's paving stones, cabochon floors, terracotta floor tiles or Burgundy slabs cannot be reissued due to lack of the character of the old ones;
Thanks to its network, the Bérengère Leroy architectural firm will be able to supply these old materials.
Several sets of sequences or courtyards of honor made of cobblestones or old paving stones decorated with fountains or bird baths will also add character to the whole.
Inside, it will be necessary to take care of the ceilings and floors, create superb stairwells with their wrought iron banisters and stone steps, and of course superb fireplaces.
Here again, the Bérengère Leroy architectural teams will produce the technical drawings and oversee their manufacture.
The gardens must be treated within a similar artistic guideline and be the subject of a global project to avoid any aesthetic imbalance.
Bérengère Leroy will also design all the decorative elements that make them up: basins, fountains, love pavilions, balusters, staircases, etc.
So yes, thanks to the experience and know-how of the Bérengère Leroy Architecture Firm in the restoration of old bastides in Provence, it is possible to recreate an old bastide from scratch and make all visitors imagine it has been there for centuries.
