Dude's renovating a French castle. Dude's a boss.

There is a slideshow in the link that is pretty cool. Could not link the pictures directly.



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Juan Pablo Molyneux is showing me around his château at Pouy-sur-Vannes on a chilly afternoon under a dove-gray sky. This is where he will retreat from his home and studio in Paris's Marais district when he takes a break from the palatial projects that are his bread and butter. Pouy is a nearly two-hour drive southeast, near the old town of Sens, although Molyneux swears he can make it in an hour and a half in his Rolls.....

Pouy is a little different. Molyneux is doing this one for himself, and it's comparatively intime, if you can call a place with 14 fireplaces intimate. Pouy is not a very big château as French châteaux go, but it clearly meant medieval business when the Templars built it around 1145 (at least people think it was the Templars). Four sturdy turrets at its corners defend the square brick-and-stone fortress, all of it surrounded by a narrow moat. Architecturally, it says keep out.....

He's not telling his clients to live like Marie Antoinette, but he's letting them live in a world of today that evokes those qualities from the past.

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