The port of St Nazaire welcomes our container, just a few hours away and twenty-five years of furniture, paintings and other objects that have marked our lives in France and Asia reach their new home. It’s a party!
Jean Tanguy, Daddy’s former gardener, leads the way. We couldn’t have expected it, but his grandson is a truck driver and at the wheel of the removal van. Each object will find its place quickly, a year of confinement will have been more than enough for us to work out all the layout scenarios.
Jean Tanguy, former gardener and friend of Daddy’s 
His grandson, the lorry driver Counting the 168 boxes one by one and distributing them among the various rooms, the logistics orchestra conductor is in control 
Stacking begins in the living room, a fraction of the volume expected. 
The monk regains… …his freedom! Ready to take his rightful place on the staircase, just as he did in Singapore. 
After the effort… The jug in the kitchen 
gigi’ in the living room Japanese espresso cups in the oven.
