Scalibert's "alchemists"
When the magic of the Dream comes to life
The “face of Scalibert,” as it appears today in all its detail, energy, and colors, is the result of a true alchemy, the fruit of a shared vision and passion born from inspired encounters with diverse talents.
Together, they all contributed to transforming the owner’s dream into reality: to create a house where people come and return, share, live, recharge, and are intoxicated by peace, culture, art, joy, and timeless moments.
Discover our magicians, their backgrounds and their world…
Delphine Cossais
A self-taught French painter, Delphine loves to play with vibrant colors to create portraits of inspiring women with intense faces and profound gazes, imbued with a certain audacity, evoking their courage and freedom. Her collaboration on the Scalibert project was therefore a natural fit.
“The project for the Château de Scalibert brings together, in itself, everything that has always driven and inspired my painting: faces, gazes, determination, vibrant color, and a romantic yet ultimately untamed spirit. I took great pleasure in creating these portraits of women with intense personalities, women who have made a name for themselves through their audacity and sense of freedom. They all share something in common: courage combined with an irresistible touch of madness. This is also a definition that perfectly suits Sabine Bechelani, the new owner of Scalibert.”
Stéphane-Jean Duphloux
“When Sabine Bechelani asked me to join the Château de Scalibert restoration project, I immediately knew I could use my artistic vision to benefit the site, given the complete synergy I felt working with its owner.
Atypical, vibrant, poetic, and yet embodying a certain “Château life,” the project’s guiding principle became immediately clear. I believe that those who discover this place will experience moments of serenity, within a world that is both timeless and imbued with truth.”
Yannick Delpech
Another place, another time, another accent, inevitably another story… but the same phrasing resurfaces from this “grand avenue of plane trees behind this large iron gate.”
The Tarn region isn’t Provence; they don’t trap thrushes and partridges there anymore, but one can easily imagine that this vast living space, these woods, these pastures, these stables and the water that surrounds them, this whole world culminates in these kitchens with their monumental fireplaces, where people eat with gusto. Such is the life of men, wrote Marcel Pagnol, such is the life of Scalibert, and “it’s still not necessary to tell the children.”
Paul, Marcel, and Lili are indeed children of Occitania.
Christine Bach
“A traveler of words and people, I journey through France and Italy, in the spirit of Marco Polo, encountering cultures, voices, and imaginations.
Literature, for me, is an inner and outer voyage, a way to connect worlds and give substance to what unites us.
I accepted the invitation to join the Château de Scalibert adventure because it is both a home port and a departure point: a house of passage and metamorphosis that breathes like a poem,
where art, literature, and life intertwine in joy and curiosity.
Here, the hospitality of the soul is cultivated as a given, and beauty and creation are shared like essential nourishment. Therefore, as Literary Director, I am delighted to be a conduit for horizons and encounters that promise eternity.”
