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PORTRAIT DE BRETONNE

Isabelle

To accompany our capsule collection in collaboration with Amour Breton, we met with three women to discuss their connection to Brittany. 

Three women, three portraits of Breton women, three worlds.

Today, we meet Isabelle, co-founder of Blumenhaus magazine, who moved to Morbihan five years ago.

Isabelle

Could you introduce yourself and tell us about your connection to Brittany? 

My name is Isabelle, I’m the creative director and co-founder of Blumenhaus. 

I’m French-Danish, and mum to a three-year-old daughter and a little boy who was born four months ago. 

Five years ago, my partner and I left Paris to move to Morbihan. I’ve been fascinated by the sea ever since I was a little girl; it was a dream of mine to be able to live closer to it.

What are your earliest memories of Brittany?

My parents loved that area, so we sometimes spent our holidays between Morbihan and Finistère (we were living in Brussels at the time). I can still picture myself at about three years old, running along a beach, chasing after my hat, which kept flying off.

What drew you to this region?

I never tire of the view of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan and the proximity to the Côte sauvage (wild coast). 

Isabelle

Is there a particular place in Brittany you’d like to share, where you feel particularly at home?

There’s a special spot near where my boyfriend and I lived when we first arrived in Brittany, a little ‘secret’ access point to a beach in Kerguen (Arradon). At the time, we were renting a wooden chalet just a 10-minute walk from the water, and whatever the weather, we’d go and take shelter under a huge oak tree. It was a special feeling every time we settled down in that spot, as if time had stood still.

How would you describe the Breton way of life, and how does it influence your daily life and your inspiration?

Brittany is a big place, I’m not sure you can say there’s a specific ‘rhythm’ to it, Morbihan is so different from Finistère and the Côtes d’Armor... but when I compare it to the hustle and bustle of Paris, I love this ‘slowness’, as if life were gentler here, and the fact that you can pop down to the coast at any time. 

Isabelle

Is Brittany a refuge, a starting point, or a home base for you? 

I really see it as a haven, a place that soothes me and gives me my daily dose of nature.

Isabelle
Isabelle