For art lovers, destinations offering both an exceptional environment and open-air museums are a real delight for an esthete looking for escapades to encounter spectacular works and architecture. From nearby Provence to the distant Japanese islands, let's visit two estates which have established themselves as essential artistic stops: Château La Coste, a wine estate in the foothills of the Luberon, and Naoshima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. The link between the two? The architecture of Tadao Ando, Pritzker Prize 1995, whose purity poses a unique way of inserting the built into landscapes and capturing the light, to create the design of art places offering visual and sensory experiences unpublished.
After Venice, it is in Paris that we can discover the works of the Pinault collection in an exceptional place: La Bourse de Commerce. As was the case for Le Palazzo Grassi, which opened in 2006 and La Punta della Dogana, which opened in 2009, emblematic heritage monuments are being renovated by combining historical splendor and contemporary architectural simplicity by Tadao Ando to become the setting for a scenography. which confronts the cultural heritage and the avant-garde of today, for a contemplation of the works in a new setting.