Babeth RIOU offers us here a journey in time and around the world through her capes. A return to the Middle Ages, when our ancestors wore this costume to go out. An invitation to travel to North Africa, where capes are a traditional costume. This lodge, beyond the canvases, is decorated in the colours of the earth, our planet. You will find furniture made of raw materials from crafts, skins, leather, wood, iron… and of course, your 2 capes to warm up on the terrace or get out of your relaxing bath.
Babeth RIOU offers us here a journey in time and around the world through her capes. A return to the Middle Ages, when our ancestors wore this costume to go out. An invitation to travel to North Africa, where capes are a traditional costume. This lodge, beyond the canvases, is decorated in the colours of the earth, our planet. You will find furniture made of raw materials from crafts, skins, leather, wood, iron… and of course, your 2 capes to warm up on the terrace or get out of your relaxing bath.
The benefits of a hotel in the trees
Our lodges have the layout of a hotel suite, bringing you the same level of hospitality, comfort and service you would expect from a hotel. With a living area of 35 sq. m, nestled 4m high in the trees, all of our lodges are fitted with a fully equipped bathroom, Italian shower, separate toilets, and mini bar with hot and cold drinks to satisfy your desires at any time of the day. Each lodge extends into a 25 sq. m terrace that includes a private spa. Only “Efflorescences”, our lodge adapted for people with reduced mobility (PRM), is on the ground. It offers 2 terraces, one of which is above a pond, and has a complete spa: sauna and massaging jacuzzi. Everything has been designed to ensure complete privacy and allow you to fully immerse yourselves in nature.
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Design, brightness and openness
- Architecte : Isabelle Poulain
- Construction and Cladding : Rémi Becherel - Nid Perché
- Stairs : Laurent Garreau - Le Terrier
“Light, osmosis with the forest, transparency, space” inspired the design of our 18 lodges. Built on stilts, from wood species present in the surrounding forest – douglas, chestnut, oak – our lodges are real, warm and cosy suites. Their large windows and open terraces, equipped with a private spa, promote an harmonious dialogue between the interiors and the forest. And for the final touch, each lodge has been designed by a contemporary artist.
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Equipements
- King size bed
- Mini bar
- Heating system
- Double basin
- Standing Mirror
- Walk-in shower
- Hospitality products
- Indoor dining area
- Outdoor dining area
- Towels & Bathrobes
- Separate toilets
- Outdoor furniture
- Hair dryer
- Safety deposit box
- Cloakroom with walk-in closet
- Walkie-Talkie
- Ecological wooden speaker
- Flashlight
- Kettle
- Fresh herbs for infusions
- Espresso machine
- Jacuzzi
A relaxing Soak
Alone in the world… Slip into hot, enveloping water directly on your terrace, whenever you wish. A timeless moment of intimacy and relaxation.
Digital Detox
You will nevertheless find:
- a walkie-talkie in your room, connected to the reception, for all your requests
- a free WiFi connection and a large screen in the common areas of the hotel
Walk or not
Walking is the best way to get around and explore our forest and the woods that surround it (the W.H.O recommends 10,000 steps a day to be healthier!). However, electric carts are provided for ease of travel, in case of necessity or a momentary lack of energy… here everything is allowed.
Biography
Voyage Voyage
Elizabeth Riou didn’t choose the canvases and her lodge’s name at random…
Houppelandes, burnous but capes especially because before being a plastic artist, Elizabeth is graduated of a bachelor’s degree in art and a secondary-school teaching diploma. Everything is clear !
Indeed, before moving towards canvases and pallets to disseminate her vision of culture civilizations, Babeth taught in Marseille and Toulon. Always keen to relate the story to the present, then she moved towards the material and the fabrics endeavoring to work the tapestries.
Then the paper and the painting were obvious for her. At the same time she run her woolen jacquard clothing business – within the 5th arrondissement of Paris, surrounded by a knitters’ team – and her personal exhibitions. In 1990, she left France to join Greece where the wood works her and where she learnt to work it and then she settled in Morocco in 2005, a place that offered her an ideal cultural and natural setting to deal with her work in depth about civilizations and transmission.
Elizabeth, if you were...
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A forest of the world, you would be...
Naturally that of Tronçais
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A tree, you would be...
An oak
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A part of this tree, you would be...
At the highest
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A forest dweller, you would be...
The "Baron Perché"
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A season, you would be...
Spring
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A mushroom, you would be...
Mousseron mushroom
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A wind, you would be...
A great westerly wind
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A smell, you would be...
That of the helichrysum which the wild boar leaves in its passage
