In the modern age, the desire to return to simpler times may be more alive than ever, as evidenced by an ongoing project deep in a forest of France’s Burgundy region. Here that a group of enthusiasts, ...
A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built a “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory It was the summer of 1999 and, in a ...
Deep in the forests of northern Burgundy, history is in the making. Stonemasons hew at rough chunks of sandstone with tools produced from scratch in the forge by leather-aproned blacksmiths. The stone ...