De Paz + Portuguese Sephardic Family in Bordeaux France
When the de Taillac clan descends on Luxeube, their dwelling in southwestern France, a few things are jump to happen. At that place volition be dinner in costume, a party in a makeshift nightclub, and a time of mean solar day when family members endeavour to find prison cell service to manage their various businesses. "Everybody has their 'phone booth' outside," says Marie-Hélène de Taillac, a jewelry designer who lives in Paris and Jaipur. "Merely when it rains or when it's freezing cold, you just forget nearly calling anyone.
She and her sister Gabrielle Deroo take care of Marie-Hélène's eponymous fine jewelry business organisation. Victoire de Taillac-Touhami runs the reimagined French apothecary Fifty'Officine Universelle Buly, with her husband Ramdane Touhami, from Paris, where the couple recently returned after stints living in Tokyo, Jaipur, Brooklyn, and Tangier.
Buly's treasures—ornate aluminum tubes of paw cream with metal caps, candles in marble vessels, and Japanese wood combs—have been go-to souvenirs for editors and stylists since the first shop opened four years ago. (Fans in the U.Due south. tin can now find Buly at Bergdorf Goodman.)
Sophie de Taillac-Suzuki, the eldest sister, comes in from Tokyo, where she has lived since 1990. She outset moved there to piece of work in PR for Comme des Garçons, just after marrying and having a child, she took time off to raise her son and help Marie-Hélène manage her Tokyo shop. In 2016, Sophie began working with the Japan chapter of En Marche, a small group of French expats and academics who wanted to help elect Emmanuel Macron president of France.
"The idea was to transfer ideas to the entrada about things we thought could be done improve, based on the Japanese arrangement and living abroad," Sophie says. "I had the coming together at my flat. I prepared boeuf bourguignon." The four sisters also have a younger blood brother, Pierre de Taillac, who is a book publisher in Deauville.
What the house lacks in cell service it makes up for in charm. "Aside from a electric line spoiling our view, you can't tell if you're in 1900 or 2010," Marie-Hélène says. The château, which has a guard tower from the 15th century at its middle but was mostly constructed in the 16th and 17th centuries, was purchased by the siblings' grandfather, who was descended from Isaac de Porthau, the basis for the character Porthos in Alexandre Dumas'due south The Three Musketeers.
Their father Alain, who died in 2012, worked in oil but spent his afterwards years promoting the Gascony region, its armagnac, and his family unit history there, which dates dorsum to the 14th century. Sophie, Gabrielle, and Marie-Hélène grew up in a pinkish palace in Libya; they began going to Luxeube regularly as teenagers, effectually the time Victoire and Pierre came along.
Over summers and holidays they would swim in the lake and play with cows, chickens, and rabbits. "In the countryside yous had a lot of freedom as a kid," Victoire says. "Information technology's always been a lively business firm, with lots of cousins around." Now there are nine children and one grandchild amid the five siblings, all of whom spend time at that place.
Its rich palette and bizarre style have been sources of inspiration for Victoire and Ramdane, and for their company. The first Buly store, on Rue Bonaparte in Paris, holds portraits on permanent loan from the house. It'south also where Victoire, who spends four to 6 weeks there every year, wrote much of her upcoming book, An Atlas of Natural Beauty, a guide to botanical ingredients and their use throughout history.
When the family gathers, information technology is a collaboration in effort and spirit, with the sisters pitching in to help their mother Marie-Cécile, whom they all depict as open-minded, elegant, and eccentric. She entertained at the firm for 50 years (guests included Pamela Harriman), but at present each daughter brings her ain professional proclivities to its upkeep. "We try with the talents we accept," says Victoire. "Everybody has her own obsession. Sophie is a party daughter, and she idea a proper nightclub would be convenient, then she installed a very nice bar and a disco ball with a neighbor. Gabrielle is the most organized, so she takes care of papers and fabrics. Pierre enjoys it all. Marie-Hélène and I are concerned with the garden."
Recently Victoire and Marie-Hélène planted fruit trees and a vegetable garden, but a rut wave and the garden's constant need for attention add up to "large mistakes and trivial victories," something they both take in pace. "It'due south easier to accept care of roses than of companies," Marie-Hélène says. "They're happy to see you, and they always like what y'all've done."
When it's time for dinner, there is a mad dash for their female parent'southward erstwhile dresses, crowns, hats, and wigs. "Wearable white, exist '70s, be Victorian," says Marie-Hélène. "Everyone ruins the society of the closet. I tried to organize it by color—white at 1 end, black at the other—simply there are likewise many people in the house." She guesses that being surrounded by so much friendly chaos may be why her jewelry, which uses brilliantly colored semiprecious and precious stones in a precise manner, ended up and then minimal. "If I had grown up in a more Zen house, perchance it would exist ornamental. Being surrounded by beautiful old things pushed me to purge."
Notwithstanding, the environment is 1 the siblings return to, once again and over again, from wherever they are in the world. And when they tin can't get there, its free energy and its beauty are notwithstanding on their minds. "When I demand to think about something cheerful," Marie-Hélène says, "I think about the view out the chamber window."
Hair and makeup for Marie-Hélène and Sophie by Hisano Komine at Airdrome Agency. Hair and makeup for Victoire and Gabrielle by Karine Belly at Backstage Agency.
This story appears in the April 2018 consequence of Town & Country. Subscribe Today
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