CAFÉ DE TANNAY STUDIO
STUDIO VISIT
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INTERIOR SPACES
RdC / tower staircase
From the garden access a spacious stone spiral stairway winds up to the two upper floors, accessing the second sitting room/bedroom before the attic. As we are told the tower is possibly the oldest part of the house, dating ‘back to François 1er’, who reigned France 1494-1547. This stairway connects the café to the house — or rather barn — next to it, as we can tell from two walled up uncovered door portals on the ground floor under the stairway and on the second floor landing.
To guess at an original reason for the spaciousness of the staircase quickly leads to a theory that it remains of an older, maybe religious structure that preceded the current buildings. We are in close vicinity to the monumental church and almost adjacent to a subterranean (9C?) chapel, privately owned and situated under the corner shoe store, which to date we have not gotten to visit. Tannay has many cellars and underground passages, which are said to connect lots of different buildings, most of them privately owned.
CONNECTIONS
garden
second floor
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