Provençal White Boutis Quilt with Scalloped Edge Single Size - 86½" x 58"

A pretty white boutis from Le Pigeonnier — the enchanting upstairs guest room at Chanteduc, Patricia and Walter Wells's farmhouse and cooking school near Vaison-la-Romaine in Provence. The room takes its name from what it once was: a working dovecote, where pigeons were kept for both their meat and the valuable fertiliser they provided. Converted into a guest bedroom with stone walls and terracotta floor tiles, Le Pigeonnier has lost none of its character. A boutis is a traditional Provençal quilted coverlet, hand-stitched in a technique that dates back centuries and remains closely associated with the bedrooms of the region. Unlike a simple quilt, it is worked in fine relief, with intricate running stitches building raised, sculptural patterns across the surface. This one is a crisp, fresh white — sized for a single bed — and finished with a pretty scalloped edge that gives it a gentle, considered elegance. The all-white stitched motifs ripple across the fabric in the style that has made Provençal boutis so enduring and so collectible. It is the kind of object that makes a room feel both lived-in and cared for. Layer it over linen at the foot of a bed, fold it across a daybed, or drape it over a reading chair — wherever it lands, it brings immediate warmth and a quiet sense of authenticity that is, in every way, the Chanteduc spirit.