Le bois sans feuilles

The restaurant

Visible from the entrance in the distance, the Bois sans Feuilles (« the Wood Without Leaves ») looks mysterious: could this be an enchanted forest? Once you enter it, tree trunks seem to appear and disappear along the path that leads to the table. Built around a hundred-year-old oak tree, the dining room looks like an extension of the grassy field and the woods beyond. The tables are partially visible behind the folded steel pillars that hold up the roof.

Between the Maisonnette, which is next to the barn, and la Grande Maison, the Bois sans Feuilles surrounds the oak tree with glass panes: no support structure or chassis breaks the continuity with the outside; only the pillars, which are set back, mirror the tree trunks. It’s as if the tables have been set facing the field of grasses that ripple in the shade of the woods, on the edge of the forest, giving diners the impression they are eating outdoors.