Stella

March 2007

'I don't do the typical French country farmhouse look', Jason Maclean, a young designer, says of the house in the Lot-et-Garonne. No flowery sofas and scrubbed pine tables here; the 200-year-old house, with its generous proportions and shuttered windows, is now home to an impressive roll-call of 20th-and 21st- century design.

Many people would have been put off by the work required. The basic structure was 'not exactly falling down, but in need of a lot of work', and services were either non-existent or in urgent need of upgrading.

But Maclean, is no stranger to big-budget projects, having several large commercial and domestic projects to his name.