Morgan had just moved to Paris from Los Angeles three months before meeting Parisian Hadrien in a bar. The two have been inseparable since that night and were engaged in Barcaggio, Corsica on July 2017, and married a year later at the Cathedral of Uzès in the south of France. It is the reception, held at the Château de Castille, a chateau owned by Hadrien’s grandparents in Argilliers, about ten minutes from the cathedral. The chateau, currently for sale, is very special to the couple as it was not only Hadrien’s grandparents’ home and entirely decorated by his grandmother, but was also previously owned by Douglas Cooper who was a close friend of Picasso. In fact, Picasso was so taken with the property that he tried to buy it several times, but Cooper―an early collector and scholar of Cubist art―refused.
Picasso did, however, leave his mark on the 6,000sq ft property. Cooper had admired a series of Picasso drawings which had been engraved in concrete at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos in Barcelona. One year while visiting the chateau, Picasso told Cooper to give him a wall and designed the series of five drawings that would be engraved on the eastern veranda. Scroll through for a glimpse into this magical French countryside wedding…
All photography by Coralie Monnet via The Lane
Photo by Coralie Monnet
