A bird’s-eye view of Château Léoube, tucked away on a peninsula overlooking the Mediterranean.

Surreal Estate

A new coffee-table book chronicles the revival of Château Léoube, a 14th-century Provence estate transformed over the last decade by British billionaire Anthony Bamford and his wife, Daylesford Organic founder Carole Bamford

Lord Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford are saying, “Mi casa es su casa”—but in French. Which casa, you ask? Not their 1,500-acre Daylesford House, in the Cotswolds (where they hosted the wedding reception of their friends Boris and Carrie Johnson), but another property that’s just as storied.

A medieval estate with cylindrical towers—cozier than a castle yet far too grand to ever be called a cottage—Provence’s Château Léoube dates back to the end of the 14th century. It sits on Cap Bénat, a rocky coastal peninsula in Bormes-les-Mimosas, with sweeping views of a Mediterranean so crystalline it rivals St. Barth’s.