After several months of careful work honouring traditional Labourdine architecture, the house in the Lehenbiscay quarter is ready to welcome its first guests.
Some houses aren't built — they wake up. After several months of work carried out with respect for traditional Labourdine architecture — timber framing, limestone, shutters in deep, earthy tones — the house in the Lehenbiscay quarter is slowly rediscovering its first calling: to welcome.
We didn't want to erase anything. The oak beams were sanded rather than replaced, the walls kept the grain of the local stone, and the wrought-iron light fittings were given a patina rather than made to look new. Every detail tells a story of continuity — the story of a place that has been lived in, handed down, and carried onward.
What guides us is a certain idea of hospitality: comfort without ostentation, warmth without staging. People will come here to slow down, to work in a different way, to gather around a long table or a fire, with the Rhune as a backdrop.
The first guests will soon cross the threshold. Until then, we're preparing the rooms, the table and the surrounding paths — everything that makes you feel, very quickly, a little at home. Welcome — or nearly.