FAMED LADUREE INTERIOR DESIGNER CLAUDIA RAVNBO TELLS US WHY LIFE IS SWEET AS SHE OPENS THE DOORS OF HER BEAUTIFUL MANSION IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

‘The town’s become very fashionable due to Caroline of Monaco, who used to live here and still visits often’

If you have an eye for colour, you will not fail to be charmed by Saint-Rémy de Provence, where honey-coloured stone houses nestle amid pines beneath the azure sky.

Loved by artists including Matisse, this is where Van Gogh painted Starry Night and where Nostradamus was born.

And now a connection has been established between Saint-Rémy and the rainbow creations of world-famous luxury patissier Ladurée, whose much-Instagrammed macarons many would call edible art.

Indeed, the village is the home of interior designer Claudia Ravnbø, who has been commissioned to design Ladurée shops and tea-rooms from Kuwait to Kazakhstan as part of the 150-year-old French brand’s expansion.

‘By chance I found myself outside a real estate agency where this house was advertised. When I