Weddings for up to 150 seated guests, board meetings, residential seminars and team building programs can be held here, with the estate privatized for the event. Domaine la Ferme HI Bride is a former farm and 12th-century watchtower at Villelaure, in the southern Luberon, reworked by the designer matali crasset and set among organic vineyards and olive trees.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells meetings, executive committees, residential seminars and team building, each built to order with a dedicated contact. Its pitch to companies is a quiet, high site that supports strategy sessions and decisions away from the office. Fiber Wi-Fi covers all rooms. The large lounge with a fireplace in the main building serves as a shared space for reading, talking or working. Outside, the rooftop of the tower, the HI-LO pool and the gardens give breakout and break areas. Massages and private yoga or meditation sessions can be booked in the open-air setting the owners call Open Source, near a historic spring in the woods.
Weddings and receptions
The HI Bride hall covers about 300 square meters and seats up to 150 guests. A secular ceremony can take place under the olive trees, the cocktail at sunset and dinner outdoors on the esplanade. The whole estate is privatized for the wedding. Guests can use the panoramic rooftop and the HI-LO pool facing the Luberon. Throughout the year, the estate also runs its own public events, such as DJ sets, music sessions and festivals, so dates should be checked early.
Rooms and capacities
The HI Bride hall is the main room, at about 300 square meters and 150 seated. The esplanade takes outdoor dinners, and the rooftop at the top of the tower gives a 360-degree view over the Luberon and nearby villages. The lounge-library with its monumental fireplace suits smaller sessions. Capacities for spaces other than the hall are not published.
Accommodation
The main building has ten rooms for two, from 19 to 35 square meters, each with its own color and a wall painting by matali crasset, and no television by choice. Two houses suit longer or family stays: Casa HI for up to six and Almond HIGO for up to five, with three bedrooms. Four wooden ecolodges stand at the edge of the woods, from 10 to 19 square meters, sleeping two to five. An honesty bar in the lobby and free tea, coffee and juice in the shared kitchen complete the offer.
Catering
A table d'hôtes menu, served only on reservation, uses produce from the farm, the permaculture vegetable garden and the estate's own oils and wines. From Thursday to Sunday, the HI Bride Sunset Club serves drinks and sharing plates near the pine wood and the pool, and picnic baskets can be ordered. The arrangements for wedding and seminar catering are set when the event is quoted.
History and setting
The estate combines an old farmhouse and a 12th-century guard tower with bold concrete additions, a signature of matali crasset. Its two founders, hoteliers since the early 2000s, had already worked with her on HI Hotel in Nice, HI Matic in Paris and Dar HI in Tunisia. The farm grows 7.5 hectares of certified organic vines at 230 meters, producing AOP Luberon red, rosé and white wines and a sparkling white. An Aglandau olive grove and beehives complete the farm.
Getting there
The estate is at 2268 route d'Ansouis, Villelaure, between Aix-en-Provence and Cucuron, near Lourmarin and Ansouis. Marseille is about 40 minutes away by car.
