Provence Style: Decorating with French Country Flair

By Shauna Varvel with Alexandra Black.Photography by Luke White. An intimate tour of quintessential Provencal style, featuring chic homes and interior details inspired by this picturesque region Thirty years after Peter Mayle documented his farmhouse renovation in bestseller A Year in Provence, the French southeast continues to seduce interior design devotees. But the era of colorful rusticity and shabby chic has since been replaced by a far more nuanced approach in line with contemporary tastes and needs. Provence Style showcases this new direction, featuring Shauna Varvel’s eighteenth-century Rhône valley farmhouse—Le Mas des Poiriers—as an exemplar.