When I visited this house for the first time,
it was the only house I visited, because I felt in love with it,
it looks so much like my grandparents' house,
it reminded me of so many memories,
that's why it was the only house I visited.
We bought it immediately,
because for me it was a sign of happiness.
I'm Laura Gonzalez, I'm an interior designer.
We are in Mainneville, in the Vexin region,
one hour and 15 minutes from Paris.
This is a house I bought three years ago now,
with a whole year of renovation.
The idea of this house is to create a showroom for our furniture.
So here we are in the living room, it was two rooms,
so we knocked out the wall between them,
that's why we have two fireplaces, which is a bit strange.
I worked with an artist named Laurent Dufour, whom I love,
who works with ceramics and stoneware.
So we have the bear and the monkey,
and it' like the symbol of the whole house.
You see animals everywhere, on the carpets, on the cushions,
on the tapestries and on the curtains.
This is the idea of the artistic reinterpretation of hunting trophies.
Then we have our own furniture.
So this is a sofa which is quite sleek,
covered with a crushed raspberry fuchsia velvet mohair, from Pierre Frey,
and which is very comfortable and full of cushions
with a hand-embroidered suzani plaid on the back, which I love.
And this is a coffee table made of bronze
and with a shape, which looks like Greek keystones, on the legs.
The top is made of glass mosaic, with a pattern that we drew,
of a very organic shape.
After that, there are a lot of bargain hunted items, like these sheepskin armchairs,
that I bought at a flea market,
or these cushions, they're 1930s embroidery, which are sublime,
that I've bargained for and I've put them on purple velvet.
There you go.
My first fashion memory, I think it's my mum,
especially in the 80s.
She always wore leggings with the matching bodysuit,
with big earrings and hair like this.
She is definitely the icon of the sexy woman that I have,
but still a little bit quirky.
Here we are in the second part of the living room, which is treated exactly like a mirror,
so we've created a cosy little corner there,
with some of the pieces from our collection.
So, we have the chair, which is very comfortable and above all it swivels.
We have this lamp that we made in collaboration with Jean-Roger, in ceramic,
in a burnt caramel colour, which is really beautiful,
with a lampshade from Pierre Frey, very pretty.
We have the footstool, with tigers.
We have this sofa which is like our icon, it's a round sofa,
very enveloping, very trendy, with a curve
and some more classical cushions, with this Lelièvre fabric in passementerie
silk velvet, so it's a mixed, contemporary, classic look that I like.
The table which is in Ming green,
which is a sublime very strong green marble,
and that also matches well with these thrifted objects, Chinese vases, etc.
I'm still dressed with patterns, as you can see.
I'm always looking for something different.
I like to buy pieces that I keep for a long time,
so for example, this is a Zimmermann dress that I've had for four years,
I can't get enough of it.
I have shapes that fit me.
I don't have a narrow body.
I need it to be tight at the top and loose at the bottom.
I have styles that fit me and I always wear them with tight patterned leggings.
I have a bit of an original style of mixing, but it's always a bit fun and a bit relaxed.
Here we are in the dining room,
it's a very special room,
because it's a room that's like an Indian winter garden.
That is my intention.
All the walls are hand-painted frescoes by the Gohar workshop.
I am a fan of fortunate symbols, so there are pomegranate trees,
there are birds, there's a whole sky of clouds,
which is covers the room a bit.
This piece is very captivating,
and then above all, there is this table, which is made of raku.
So raku is a burnt Japanese ceramic,
until it cracks.
It's pretty amazing to see it in colour,
on a solid wood base, which was made by Gohar as well, with lots of details,
of waves, of massive legs.
It's quite funny, this mix of many references,
with our raw wood chairs, with this water lily fabric,
which gives a nod to Giverny, which is nearby.
So there I have a kind of dressing room area.
I wanted to have an old-fashioned wardrobe,
with this fabric that comes behind the glass.
It's quite a funny story, because I bought this fabric in London,
in a very small shop in Notting Hill.
I loved it.
I bought it without knowing what to do with it, and we had the exact length,
so it was like a sign.
So a couple of pieces that I put on all the time:
if I take a few here, quickly,
a velvet kimono, for example, like this one,
or in silk, which I have all the time, everywhere, because I wear it, either, in the evening,
during the day, with leggings to go to work.
It's something I wear all the time, with a white shirt
or with a tight t-shirt.
This suits me well and it's very feminine.
The prints, of course, on blouses,
I love this one, it's a Zimmermann blouse,
a bit transparent, sexy, but at the same time bohemian.
I really like this style and I like a lot, you know, skirts, dresses.
It's really something that suits me.
So, for example, this skirt, Mademoiselle, which I love, embroidered.
It's true that you can find some of my materials, my decorations, in the wardrobe.
No, that's enough, Paco, that's enough.
So this is the extended property, we haven't dealt with it yet.
The idea in the long run is to make an artist's residence.
The Vexin is known for its light.
There are many artists who came here: Monet,
but there is also Picasso who had a house in Boisgeloup, just next to Gisors
and a lot of other artists, because there is a golden light, quite magical.
And so, my idea would be to do a workshop,
a small house to invite artists.
That's kind of the idea, in the short-term, to transform this building like that.
So here we are in the bathroom, in a style, I like to call it, antique.
On the floor, we have this magnificent mosaic made by Pierre Mesguich.
After that, we have straw on the wall, I find it very pretty, it gives a very rural touch.
We have our sconces, made in collaboration with François Roger, in ceramic.
We have this mirror that I designed for this bathroom, which is very feminine,
in white matte ceramic, which I really like, made by François Roger.
And we have the free-standing bathtub, which has a very English style,
but hand-painted by a painter, David Rauma,
and which resembles some Etruscan paintings.
And especially the marble bases with this moulded drawn side,
it makes me think of Italian bathrooms, a bit Roman.
So, it's really this mix of antiques and inspiration,
with the Chinese fabrics, Pierre Frey, embroidery on the walls.
It really represents this house well.
To talk about my beauty routine, I'm really fan of natural products,
so I'm quite a fan of Tata Harper, Susanne Kaufmann, Dr. Hauschka
and I use essential oils a lot.
That's kind of my...
My friends call me the druidess.
I'm always giving tips:
"You should put lavender oil with a this and that",
it's my obsession.
So now we're in my room.
You can see that I have a passion for cushions.
There are a million cushions on the bed.
It always takes an hour to go to bed at night because you have to put them away.
I wanted a feminine room, at the same time, quite soft, but neutral.
That's why there's only one wallpaper wall, the rest is painted, with a grey tone.
And since it's very big, I thought it was important to have strong tones,
like the headboard, or these bedside tables, which are very strong in terms of colour.
These are Dorothy Draper bedside tables, which is a great American designer,
who I love and who inspires me a lot in my daily work.
It's mixed with iconic furniture pieces
like this set we did for Design Week.
There are lots of little fish and eyes, to take away the evil eye
and these are bargained Turkish carpets,
that I had reupholstered, so it's truly upcycling furniture.
Then here are my jewels.
It's true that jewellery is really part of my daily wardrobe.
So, I have some pieces I've found, like this necklace from Saint-Laurent
that I bought at an auction.
I also have some beautiful pieces, which are very original,
like the giraffes or the stars, which are by a Turkish designer, called Begum,
which I love, very original.
And then the jewellery box, which is a gift from my mum,
with all my little treasures inside.
And that's a pretty funny story,
this is my grandparents' country house
and it looks a lot like this house.
And when I visited this house for the first time,
it was the only house I visited, because I fell in love with it,
because it looks so much like my grandparents' house,
it reminded me of so many memories,
that it's the only house I visited.
We bought it immediately, because for me it was a sign of happiness.