Le Mas du Rocher
The quiet side of the Saint-Tropez peninsula.
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The horizon
One hundred and eighty degrees of sea.
From almost every room.
The Îles d’Or on the horizon.
As published in Maisons Côté Sud
Heures Bleues
At the top of the hill, facing the Île du Levant: a blue, white and yellow house where everything was designed for living as well outdoors as in.
Maisons Côté Sud, Villégiature: Heures Bleues
The magazine named the house for the hour when the islands fade. The pages are still here, on the table where they were first opened.
A day here
How the house is lived
Not a schedule. Simply the rhythm the house tends to fall into.
The path to Gigaro
Down the hill through the pines to the beach, where the protected coast begins.
The groundsLunch for twelve
Under the cane roof, with the sea running the full width of the table.
The covered terraceNobody looking in
Heated saltwater, eight sun beds and six thousand square metres of hillside that are yours alone.
The poolThe kitchen fills
A La Cornue range, V-ZUG steam ovens and a marble table where everyone ends up helping.
The kitchenThe blue hour
The islands fade one by one. This is the hour the magazine named the house for.
Evenings hereThe house
As if always there
The detail that makes a house look as if it had always been there: shutters of crossed wooden slats, génoise cornices, pillars like those of the seventeenth-century courtyards of Orange and Avignon.
Maisons Côté Sud, Villégiature: Heures Bleues
Built for one family and finished by hand. Even the blue of the shutters is a patina, not a paint.
Room by room
Walk through the house
Sea & outdoors
Covered terrace for twelve · heated saltwater pool · 6,000 m² of grounds
Living
Two seating areas · fireplace · piano
Kitchen
La Cornue induction · V-ZUG steam ovens · two dishwashers
Seven bedrooms
Two wings on different levels · the seventh with its own front door
Bathrooms
Six full bathrooms · two half baths
Practicalities
Laundry · four covered parking places · EV charging
The coast below
Protected, therefore rare
The coast below the house belongs to the nation and will never be built on. Views like this one are not being made any more.
- 327 ha
- of Cap Lardier belong to the Conservatoire du littoral, the French coastal trust.
- 6 km
- of undeveloped shoreline, the longest protected frontage of the three capes.
- 2006
- Natura 2000 designation; the site is managed with the Port-Cros National Park.
- On foot
- The sentier du littoral starts at Gigaro beach, the entrance to the protected domain, and stays quiet even in August.
Down the road
Neighbours
Quiet is not the same as remote. Everything the peninsula is known for is twenty minutes away, and almost none of it comes up the hill.
- Lily of the Valley
- On the same road.
- Gigaro beach
- At the foot of the hill.
- Pampelonne
- About fifteen minutes by car.
- Saint-Tropez
- About twenty minutes by the route des Plages.
Drive times are estimates. Summer traffic adds to all of them.
When
The only limit
One house. Twelve guests. One calendar.
Currently open
Checking the calendar…
From €810 a night · three nights minimum
From the owners
Our home, in our words
This is our family’s house. We lend it to people who will open the shutters in the morning, eat outside, and let the sea set the pace.
A house manual waits inside. The house is looked after between every stay.