‘I’m delighted every time I step into our home,
which we renovated and decorated completely. The
lake is stunning at any time of year. I love the water
so much that as soon as I reach it I jump right in’
Monique’s trademark colour scheme flows throughout the house (above and below). Although she
and Thomas own luxurious homes in St Tropez and Gstaad, it’s here, on Lake Zurich, where they
and their children, Louis, 18, and Estelle, 16, feel most at home. “When you wake up it’s as if you’re
living in another dimension, which is a lot calmer and more magical than the real one,” says
Monique, who met her husband as a student and decided to give up her studies to work with him
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