Coming Home To Nature salad bowl Envelop your home with the

Envelop your home with the heady floral bouquet of this Otensia scented candle from Fornasetti

Each bar is wrapped in vivid orange-and-blue packaging

Kingfisher Soup Plate from the John Derian and Astier de Villatte collaboration

and styling by AD contributor Mieke ten Have

Journalist and designer David Netto is the author of François Catroux

Coming Home To Nature salad bowl Envelop your home with theThe call of the wild has never looked as stylish as in these homes nestled in the French countryside, crafted by families pursuing a new form of country living. A manor next to an elegant seventeenth century castle in a picturesque village, a restored four hundred year old windmill, or a ruin in the Barbizon forest transformed into a contemporary timber houseour trio of authors saw the potential in these rural homes and took the leap into a life