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Café de Tannay
Authentic 16C town house residency
two+ hours south of Paris, France
Café de Tannay is a spacious one- to four or five person lodging in the ancient center of the originally Middle aged wine village Tannay (name derived from Celtic ‘tann’, oak) in the western part of the Burgundy region, at some two-and-a-half driving hours south of Paris and at 20 kilometers from UNESCO World-heritage site Vézelay, on its ‘eternal hill’ dominating the surrounding Morvan National Park.
After 20 months of careful restoration, from fall 2008 the Café de Tannay is available for rent.
living/dining room onto garden
kitchen onto courtyard
The lodging has 120 square meters of habitable space. At ground floor level the living/dining room is accessed from the quiet and well protected garden. Its gate opens to the Tannay main street, Rue Ste. Agathe. In the garden are a partly covered terrace and water well. Also one access to the vaulted wine cellar is here. Another access to the cellar is from the courtyard behind the house. The modern kitchen, situated next to the salon, opens onto this courtyard, a so called cour commune, or semipublic space shared by its residents.
The extension next to the kitchen contains on the ground floor a shower-toilet and on the second floor a bathroom with bath, double washing stand and fireplace. From its small landing one accesses a larger 16 square meter landing with a separate second floor toilet. The spacious landing has a bureau and could accommodate one more person. Two bed room/sitting rooms are accessed from the landing.
second floor bathroom
landing
first sitting room / bed room
second sitting room / bed room
The house is rich in architectural detail from various periods: pièce de résistance is its 16C stone spiral staircase; roughly from the same period are supporting stones, niches and door portals, or the salon’s long wall with embedded arches extending into the kitchen; an impressive oak beam connects the salon’s other walls, its floor is in 19C decorated cement tiles, the kitchen’s floor in ancient pottery tiles; on the second floor are two 18C oak cupboards and more stone details and niches. In the vaulted wine cellar are stone fermentation tubs.
Tannay main street
Place Charles Chaigneau with town hall
Archeological finds prove that Tannay has a Celtic history but it is first described in 1121, as a religious center. Today to French standards it is a still rather well served small town, with just under 600 inhabitants, offering a bakery, butcher, two wine producer’s boutiques, a supermarket with ATM and gas station, a maison de presse book and magazine store, drug store/pharmacy, doctor and veterinarian, two restaurants, one also hotel, another simple hotel for hikers, a café-tabacconist and two other bars, two shoe stores, two hairdressers, a post office and Crédit Agricole bank. At two kilometers from the center is a small port where one can rent a boat to float along the Canal du Nivernais, running parallel to the Yonne river. To the north-west of Tannay are its Melon de Bourgogne or Chardonnay varieties growing vineyards and surrounding woods.
Tannay vineyards
Towards the east, World-heritage Vézelay with its Mary Magdalene basilica is at walking distance. That is, if you are on a Santiago de Compostella pilgrimage. Us ordinary mortals drive there in 15 minutes, or go by bike. Other cultural or more urban destinations nearby could be the Cistercian monasteries of Fontenay, or Pontigny; cities on the Loire river like Nevers (famous for the shooting of Alain Resnais’ 1959 Hiroshima mon amour after the screenplay by Marguerite Duras, a little lesser known for one of the few realized building projects by French theorist-philosopher Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, the 1966 ‘bunker church’. and to stay with religion, Nevers also has the Saint-Gildard chapel where rests a embalmed Bernadette Soubirous, who at age 14 had 18 visions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, in 1858). Further north along the Loire are Cosne and antique book town La Charité with its 14 book antiquarians.
For those who would want to visit Paris for a day, the French capital is a two-and-a-half hours drive away. Also French SNCF railways take you there 4 times a day, with a bus connecting Tannay to the Clamecy train station at 10km. A better and faster connection is Cosne-Paris, only 1h50'.
The Café de Tannay’s interior decoration is eclectic. Some pieces in its household and some art objects will be for sale and catalogued on this site. Thanks to collaborations with local antique dealers-brocanteurs and international artists friends the lodging will regularly change dress. After 20 months of radical change for this property, it is hard to give up the habit.
Café de Tannay Studio
Café de Tannay Studio describes and illustrates the restoration process. We rebuilt this house as a site for memory, where historical material and achievements can be weighed against contemporary cultural production and updated for some of today’s basic needs: an excentric production environment, sustainable reference and a context inviting permanent innovation, through knowledge building, discussion and publication.
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WHAT THE CAFÉ DE TANNAY OFFERS
Café de Tannay
Property of SCI Le Moulin du Merle,
Gilberthe Akkermans, Jouke Kleerebezem
5, Rue Ste. Agathe
58190 Tannay
France
T +33 (0)386 275910
M +33 (0)6 7729 8345
E gite at cafedetannay dot com
www also via gites.nl (Dutch)
English, Dutch, French and German spoken
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What Tannay and surroundings offer — links
lay-out
ground floor:
former bar room as a spacious (43 square meter) sitting room/dining room, entered from an enclosed nicely overgrown garden with shelter and water well, large vaulted wine cellar; modern equipped kitchen; shower-toilet
second floor:
bathroom with bath, double washing stand and small fireplace; 16 square meter spacious landing/study with desk; toilet; two connected sitting room/bedrooms, one with its private access to the garden via stone spiral staircase
Tannay facilities and services
SNCF railways bus stop (4 daily train connections to Paris), bakery, butcher, supermarket with ATM and gas station, maison de presse book and magazine store, drugstore-pharmacy, hotel-restaurant Le Relais Fleuri, café-tobacconist and 3 other bars, 2 wineries and caves, 2 shoe stores, 2 hairdressers, post-office, bank Crédit Agricole, medical doctor, veterinarian.
nearby and not-to-be-missed
- UNESCO World-heritage Vézelay with Mary Magdalene basilica
- Sancerre, Pouilly, Chablis, Irancy, Coulange la Vineuse vineyards
- Morvan national park with countless streams and some lakes
- Cities on the Loire river Nevers, Cosne, La Charité (book antiquarian town, 14 bookstores)
- the Yonne- and Loire valleys and the Canal du Nivernais
- Roman churches and Cistercian monasteries Pontigny en Fontenay
- Bourges, Dijon, Beaune, Paris
prices
475-650 euros/week, including basic necessities like linens and bedclothes, full kitchen equipment. Prices depending the season and possible extra facilities or services.
Electricity and (other, e.g. wood) heating costs are metered and settled at cost price. Cleaning costs at 50 euros, unless the tenant returns the house in a clean state.
with the same owners, at 8km. distance
bed and breakfast at Le Moulin du Merle
www.lemoulindumerle.com
Who would prefer to stay in a bed and breakfast can be lodged at nearby villa Le Moulin du Merle from €40/night.
special arrangements
Special arrangements can be agreed In consultation. Renting the entire Moulin du Merle, possibly in a combination with the Café de Tannay, would provide ample space for up to 16 persons. Prices and conditions to be negotiated. Prices mentioned here are for basic recreational and touristic occupancy.
The owners of the Café de Tannay and Moulin du Merle are interested in the exchange of services, knowledge and skills. Under circumstances prices can be adjusted according to one’s means. In certain periods of the year also an exchange of houses could be possible. Special arrangements can finally be made if the house would be occupied for an extensive (working) period or for a ‘living-in-France’ testing period.
artist residency
Being active professionals in the publishing arts and fashion design, maintaining their international networks, owners Gilberthe Akkermans and Jouke Kleerebezem are especially interested in receiving their peers — visual and writing artists and various interested parties who look for different conditions for their studies or production. Through international funding visiting artists could obtain financial support for a residency program at the Café de Tannay or Moulin du Merle. Also artists might contribute with their skills or works to the ongoing CdT Studio project. See also under (art) objects.
The Café and Moulin are ready to receive interested artists even while (or rather, all the more since) a residency program is currently under development. It will be hooked up to the Studio part of this site. For more information or proposals email Jouke Kleerebezem at ‘artistresidency at cafedetannay dot com’.
local products
At the Café de Tannay and Moulin du Merle homemade and locally grown or fabricated (also biological) products are served: jams, chutneys, wines, aperitifs, cheese, lamb meat, beauty and care products.
(art) objects
To enhance its function as a site for cultural production and to contribute to the CdT’ interior design both for its functions and decoration we seek collaboration with artists, designers, architects and (local) dealers. Certain objects will be for sale at the properties. A catalogue of these items will be added to this website.
LINKS
Tannay
- Google Tannay
- Tannay in Wikipedia F
- Tannay in Patrimoine de France
- Caves Tannaysiennes
- Domaine de Sarmentole
within a range of 20km
- Delphine Perrot, Ferme du Mazot, Taconnay: biological goat farm for cheese, dairy and (lamb) meat
- Florence Baudu, Grange Treillard: ecological care and beauty products
- La Graineterie, Clamecy: biological shop, many local products
- Les Poteaux, Ruage: family restaurant with small terrace, local cuisine
wine and gastronomy
- Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World
- Burgundy wine territory
- Loire wine territory
- Marc Menau’s restaurant l’Espérance ***Michelin (YouTube Meneau)
(contemporary) art and history
- Parc Saint Leger Centre d'Art Contemporain
- Burgundy museums, like Clamecy
- UNESCO World-heritage Vézelay with the Maria Magdalena basilica
- Cistercian monasteries Pontigny and Fontenay
- La Charité (book town, 14 antiquarians, markets)
- Bazoches castle
- prehistorical Arcy sur Cure caves
- Aubigny chalk mines
- ‘Art brut’ garden La Fabuloserie
- Musée du Son
tourism
- Nièvre tourism
- Morvan national park
- ...more Morvan
- Morvan heritage
- 3 lakes
real estate
- Simone Maroux, Grenois
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