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"Pierre Cardin at Home\nThe couturier restores the fabled castle of the Marquis de Sade\nThe legendary ch\u00E2teau, in ruins before Cardin stepped in, occupies a 70-acre hilltop site overlooking the medieval village of Lacoste.\nWith the castle courtyard's structural integrity reestablished, the area, which affords visitors brilliant perspectives of the Lub\u00E9ron mountains, is now used as an event location of the Festival de Lacoste, a summer concert series produced by Cardin.\nIn Provence, designer Pierre Cardin has nearly completed an extensive restoration of a 15th-century castle that was once the residence of the Marquis de Sade.\nThe entrance hall , where a bronze figure of a man sits on a Renaissance chest.\nAn arrangement of Louis XV and XVI giltwood chairs and an elaborately carved Rococo side table are among the designer's selections for the peach first-floor reception area. The decorative treatment is decidedly eclectic.\nA cabinet showcases his collectibles, including an Egyptian mask and a grouping of early pewter tableware.\nThe nearby quarry, the same source used to build many of the houses that occupy the cherry-tree-dotted slope below Cardin's residence.\nThe quarry now serves as a concert space.\nIn the second-floor dining room, Cardin combined furnishings from multiple periods, some of which he acquired at a Paris flea market.\nThe castle's walls are constructed of M\u00E9nerbes stone taken from the quarry were used in the construction of the castle's walls."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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