I’ve never been to Marseille in France, but it seems that a few interior gems reside here, and I stumbled across this beautiful boutique B&B while researching French farmhouse design.
Casa Honore resides in the back streets behind the Old Port, and if you weren’t actively seeking it, you would probably walk straight past its unassuming façade. However, step inside and you’ll think you have been transported to another country altogether!
In a past life, this building once housed a bustling printing company and if it wasn’t for owner, Annick Lestrohan, having an emotional attachment to printing, (her father was a printer), then this factory could still be in a derelict state.
Annick, a local fashion and interior designer snapped up the property in 2000 and totally transformed the place, taking influence from North African riads and exposing the industrial side with usage of hard materials like concrete, steel and timber. The combination of styles works wonderfully together. This is truly a well thought out, stylish home, and now that the kids have left home, Casa Honore has been adapted into a place for visitors to Marseille where they can rest their heads.
There is so much inspiration to take from this, that I don’t really know where to start. What I can say is that the mix of influences has really paid off. Proving that you don’t always have to be a slave to a building, there are ways to mould and enhance homes to reflect your own global influences.
Visit the Casa Honore website here.
Best wishes,
Jess from Hector & Bailey
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