Step Inside: A House on the Bayou

Patrick Dunne’s country house, Serenity, on Bayou Carron in Washington, Louisiana.

Dunne with his beloved dog Chene (which means “oak” in French).

A nineteenth-century Acadian chair guards the entrance to a bedroom.

A farm sink and copper pots for cooking gumbo.

A formal Louis XVI canape and eighteenth-century, hand coloreed engravings by Buffon.

A bare brick floor keep the dining room casual.

Another view of the dining room.