An 1876 Château in the Loire, Half Guest House and Half Studio
Built in 1876, run as a hotel from 1940 until the early 2000s and then lived in as a family house, the Haute Borde was handed by its owners Jacques and Marie Barrère to the Parisian art directors Cécile Simon and Céline Barrère, who reopened it as a guest house with an artists' residency attached. MPM Architecture stripped the rooms back and the designer Erin Korus refilled them with the family's antiques and vintage pieces found in Paris and the Netherlands: cocciopesto floors, plaster walls, Languedoc red marble in the bathrooms. Five bedrooms upstairs, three salons and a music room below, a professional kitchen the guests cook in, and ten hectares of park with century-old chestnuts, a pond and a thirteen-metre heated pool.
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Photography © Château de la Haute Borde.
Rooms & Availability
Garden Room
Eighteen square metres facing the garden, with a double bed and a private bathroom.
Garden Room
Garden Room with French Bed
Twenty-two square metres facing the garden, with a French double bed and a private bathroom.
Garden Room with French Bed
Double Room
Twenty-five square metres with a double bed and a private bathroom.
Double Room
Large Garden Room
Thirty square metres facing the garden, with a double bed and a private bathroom.
Large Garden Room
Large Double Room
Thirty-five square metres, the largest of the five, with a double bed and a private bathroom.
Large Double Room
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Amenities
No reception and no restaurant: three salons, a music room, a professional kitchen the guests use themselves, and a heated pool in ten hectares of park.
Photography © Château de la Haute Borde.
RILLY-SUR-LOIRE | SEPTEMBER 2026
Five Bedrooms, Three Salons and a Kitchen You Are Expected to Use
Rilly-sur-Loire is a village on the Loire between Amboise and Blois, four kilometres from Chaumont and its garden festival. The château stands back from it in ten hectares of meadow and old trees, with a pond at the bottom of the park and a boat tied up on it. From the drive it is the 1876 house unchanged: pale stone, tall windows, gravel.
Inside, little is grand. The ground floor holds three salons — one with the fireplace — a study, a billiards room and a music room with a piano, a turntable and guitars, furnished with the family's antiques and pieces the designer Erin Korus found in Paris and the Netherlands: a Martin Visser sofa, a Jean Royère desk, striped lounge chairs, two jute rugs. Floors are cocciopesto, walls are plaster, bathrooms are lined in Languedoc red marble. Five bedrooms are let on their own; taken whole, the house sleeps eighteen.
There is no restaurant and no service in the usual sense. Breakfast is laid out — bread, homemade jam, organic fruit, eggs, whipped fromage blanc, granola, cake — and after that the professional kitchen is yours, with vegetables from the garden. Chefs come in residence roughly once a month and cook for two nights. The other residency is CHB Arts, a non-profit that hosts artists, writers, film-makers and musicians for two weeks to three months and shows the work in the house.
