The house of Annie-Pierre Moissonnier, co-owner and art director of the famous furniture factory MOISSONNIERIt is located ten minutes from the county town of Bourg-en-Bresse, famous all over the country for its antique salon and Bresse chickens. These very chickens, painted by nature in the colors of the national flag of France (red scallop, white feathers and blue paws), are the pride of local farmers. In the landscapes of the region, the proximity of Switzerland is felt throughout - tiny rivers cross the hilly valleys here and there, and cows and horses satisfied with the life of the water meadows graze. From the windows of Annie-Pierre's house on the hill there are stunning vistas, and in clear dry weather Mont Blanc is visible on the horizon.

But the location is not all that makes the house of our heroine unique. Built in 1965 by the famous entrepreneur Mr. Nashury, the house was completely different from everything that was being built in France at that time. Villas with flat roofs and huge windows built with elevation changes came into vogue influenced by the Bauhaus architecture and gained wide popularity in Germany and the USA on the wave of the futuristic boom of the 60s. But not in France, where to this day preference is given to the architecture of traditional styles and forms. In the middle of the last century, the appearance of such outcasts was regarded as nothing more than an encroachment on the national culture: several years after the construction of an unusual mansion, the authorities of the region prohibited building houses with a flat roof until it became a total disaster. So the "white house Nashuri" remained in the district one of a kind.

Annie Pierre told me that she was 14 years old when this house grew up on a hill near her hometown. He hit her so much that she made a wish: someday she will definitely live in the same way. “I never wanted to live in a palace like other girls, and I didn’t imagine myself to be a princess. I grew up with my brother, and all the time we were building some kind of toy farms and garages of imaginary glass and concrete,” says Annie Pierre.

A few years later she decided to take up painting and went to Paris to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. In parallel, she worked as a stylist and decorator. But, by her own admission, life far from the nature of her, and soon she, along with her husband Jean-Lou Moissonnier (Jean-Loup Moissonnier), returned to her native places, where she began to develop a new image of the family furniture brand. A few years later, she bought her dream home.

As for the design of the house, the hostess was fully engaged in it herself. She says that the interior does not have any particular style: "It's just a mixture of things that I love, among which I, as the French say, doux a vivre - it's sweet to live." This is a mix of styles, times and cultures. Annie Pierre considers ultramodern interiors to be sterile and believes that old and ethnic objects refresh them, giving them a current sound. But Anni-Pierre’s favorite decorator is a search for unexpected color combinations, thanks to which an individuality appears in the interior.

There are many pictures in the house - there are views of New York, portraits of Anni-Pierre herself and rapper Tupac Shakur, abstract canvases in various techniques ... It's amazing that the author of all the works is the daughter of the hostess Caroline, a professional artist. According to Annie Pierre, she turned the house into a gallery of her own daughter: "In these works, you can see the evolution of her author's style - her work has been collected here since the age of 17. But especially for me, the portrait of a sad polar bear framed in birch trees - around I formed him the interior of the living room. "