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La Scanff, Yves Claret and
their team brought La Colle from it's grave and
helped to set in motion many of the now key
features. They established the Main House and the
Gîte, they created a large water recuperation project
and helped to maintain the access track from La
Blache.
The gîte was set up so that
potential visiting buyers or agents could come and
stay while talking about Jacques projects or viewing
his artworks. There are specifically less windows in
the gîte so that the big blank white walls could be
used to hang his works. A sort of in house
exhibition gallery.
All the Provence floor tiles
were laid in this period and the base of the central
heating system was installed. The roofs were covered
with traditional Provencial Lauze, a natural flat
sandstone that was able to be split into large
plates ideal to cover the roofs.
During this period the team
converted the Vout which was an natural stone animal
cave/barn into the centre piece lounge in the Main
House and also put in all the oak covered doors and
cupboards.
Unfortunately sometime in
the 1980's the Le Scanff family split up and Jacques
left to return to Paris, making only occasional
trips back to visit me.
Nicolas Le Scanff stayed
with his family for some time and helped to look
after me. But there was many times when being left
again to the elements meant that with the help of
the never ending stream of insects and animals I
slowly creped back to my ruined state.
My state deteriorated so
much so that my walls started to crumble again, my
roof leaked and sagged, my electricity was deemed so
dangerous that the Electricity company EDF cut out
the supply box completely. Was I to go through this
slow death again?
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