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La Gonette

An 18th century chateau, retreat centre, and learning community in Provence, France

13/05/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT | A very exciting one

We have our A Reading Week coming up this September: a week at La Gonette in collaboration with Readings Bookshop Australia. We are delighted to be working with on this week.

We are also delighted to announce that the wonderful Michael Cunningham will be joining us for the week as a co-facilitator with Alice Nelson. Michael has come to be an integral part of La Gonette’s literary programs and story — we are just thrilled to have him as part of this week.

Further details for the retreat are on our website, which is linked in our bio. The application form is also on the website.

DM or e-mail us at [email protected] if you’re interested, or if you have any questions.

Exciting.

LG.
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07/05/2026

Did April come and go? It seems so.

Well it was mighty. A glorious start to the season.

April’s newsletter is on its way, coming to you this weekend. Write to us with your e-mail address if you’d like to become a reader of our (free) monthly missive.

With love.
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05/05/2026

A special visit to the atelier of ceramicist during our The Art of the Table retreat with last week.

Valerie uses vintage lace and forages plants and flowers that she presses into the clay that she creates her pieces with.

We’ve just started working on a special collaboration with Valerie for a La Gonette collection. More on that to come, but we’re excited.

It’s always a privilege and treat to be welcomed into the space of artists — to see where and how they create.

Merci for having us Valerie.

30/04/2026

An absolute joy, delight, pleasure to have opened the season with such wonderful humans. We’ve just finished our first retreat of the year — The Art of the Table with .

A week of endlessly intriguing conversations; of tables set with such thought and care; of creative beings; of beautiful spring food by , .olive and ; of flowers in full bloom; of new connections and new friends.

A visit to meet in her atelier — a ceramicist whose work sits on the shelves and tables of La Gonette; pieces that have become part of our daily life here. And a visit from artists .monge and .pelisson who have come to be such an integral part of our community, along with their work. Watching them transform the dining room and table with their pieces felt like some kind of magic.

Flowers grown by and and created by filled the house, pink and yellow pops of joy.

A huge thank you to Laura who shared so generously her endless passion, intrigue and experience of the table. And to each of our guests who came with such openness to learn and willingness to share.

Hearts are full. Merci to all.

LG
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20/04/2026

The seasons’s Firsts unfolding day by day.

Our first retreat for the year, the house slowly waking as the gardens around it explode with tree peonies and tulips. Gift bags embroidered and vases filled and menus planned. The first batch of La Gonette granola and the first green salad. Pillow cases reunited with their match. Oh all just so lovely to be back in the swing, back into spring.

And even a quick, early morning drive over to Bonnieux for one of the season’s first brocantes. Ice cream coupes and vintage lighters and a fish grill for warm summer nights ahead.

A delight to be heading into our first retreat for 2026 — a week with . A delight to have guests settling in, and around our table. We are so looking forward to all that’s ahead.

Glorious flowers grown by and and arrangements created by .

Let the lovely days of spring and summer at La Gonette begin.

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14/04/2026

Last June, joined us for our inaugural A Week in the Country — a reading and writing retreat with Michael Cunningham. It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship between La Gonette and Lindsey. In fact, we’ve spent the last few weeks speaking with brilliant women all over the world who will join us for a week with Lindsey this coming September. More on that to come, but for now, a piece that Lindsey has written for after spending that week with us last year.

Lindsey tells the story of landing at La Gonette …

At the time, La Gonette was largely abandoned. “It was very Miss Havisham,” recalls Alice Nelson. “Everything remained intact. There was still a game of cards on the table. Robert’s slippers were at the foot of the bed. Everything was covered in dust. The garden, already wild, had become completely un-manageable.” The rooms themselves, with their thick beams and whitewashed walls in shades of faded ochre and bluish-sage green, seemed to be holding their breath.

And writes of her time with Michael …

This spring, Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for The Hours (1998), will once again host a week of readings and reflection in this place that has become a creative refuge for him. Last June, he confided: “I sense a strong feeling of continuity in these places, the impression that the house still bears the imprint of the full and rich lives that have passed through it.”

The story is linked in our bio, and is on our website.

Merci Lindsey, merci BEAU Magazine.

As always, endlessly fortunate to have capturing moments and days of La Gonette. All photographs are by Doreen.

10/04/2026

Moments from days at La Gonette last summer. Special people.

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02/04/2026

Fancy a spring week in the countryside of Provence?

We still have one spot available for our week with , The Art of the Table.

As part of the week we’ll be visiting the wonderful Francine who collects and sells the most glorious selection of these white French napkins. Total swoon.

Send us a note via DM if you’re interested. All details are linked in our bio.

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27/03/2026

A gentle reminder that applications for our week with — Women in, and on, Provence — will close this coming Sunday, March 29.

We are really so delighted by all the wonderful applications we have received. Thank you to all.

The link is in our bio with details and the application form.

WHEN: September 28 to October 04
WHERE: La Gonette, Simiane-la-Rotonde (90 minutes north of Marseille)
HOW: Apple via the link in our bio

Write to us with any questions.
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25/03/2026

Summer days are ahead, a soothing certainty. Days like this one with flowers and frolicking and sweet sweet peppers and pink silk dresses.

The clouds will feel like something out of a dream, the wild plots of exploding flowers, too. And those Jack and the Beanstalk sunflowers.

Back at La Gonette, will set up just outside the kitchen window with all the vases in the house. She’ll work her magic under the morning sun. Absolute beauty.

This was from a day last summer at . We’ve been dreaming of their unbelievable collection of tomato seeds for every possible variety. Dreaming of a return to this wild wonderland of beauty and growth.

Soon.

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