About the Author

Shauna Varvel began her career in public relations with Estée Lauder in New York, continuing with the brand to Tokyo. After many years of renting summer homes in Provence with her family, Shauna finally chose one to call their own, taking on the renovation of a 200-year-old farmhouse outside Avignon, France. The project has been celebrated by numerous publications, including Veranda, Town & Country and Fortune magazines, and visited by celebrities and an American president.

Alexandra Black has written widely on cultural and material history. She is the author of Living in Cuba, Tuscan Elements, Ski Style, The Japanese House, Dusk Till Dawn, and The Fashion Book, and has contributed to Elle, Vogue Living and Gourmet Traveller.

Reviews

"Provence Style: Decorating with French Country Flair includes intimate tours of chic homes and their interior details that are inspired by the picturesque region they reside in. It also includes chapters on the public spaces in Varvel's home. . . transporting the reader on a captivating stylistic journey."--Southern Home

"Beloved around the world, Provence's spirit is humbled and pure. In a visual compendium of this region's most charming interiors, readers find inspiration for decorating with the tastes of the French countryside. . . . Using her luxurious dwelling as an archetype and other noted interiors as visual examples, the author depicts how the region's iconic style balances rusticity and refinement."--Victoria

"Using Shauna Varvel's 18th-century Rhône valley farmhouse--Le May des Poiriers--as a starting point, readers will be invited on an intimate tour of some of the most beautiful space in France's sun-drenched region of Provence."--House Beautiful

"When Shauna Varvel and her family bought an 18th-century estate on a 65-acre pear farm on the Rhône River, their lives turned into a romantic fantasy fit for a Hollywood movie."--New York Post