n an 2018, Alix and Onur Keçe approached an overgrown plot in the Vexin nature preserve northwest of Paris just as the sun broke through the clouds. The couple, whose main residence is an apartment in the city’s tony 7th arrondissement, had been looking for a country home for years. They wanted a place where their two daughters—Ellis, six, and Panda, three—could run freely, and ideally it would be within an hour’s car ride so that “there wouldn’t be too much screaming on the way there,” says Onur.
