Photographer Eric Laignel Takes His Family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, France for Their Annual Vacation

Daughter Josephine, 12, thumbs a ride in Vazen, the seaside village where the Laignel family has vacationed each summer for the past decade. Photography by Eric Laignel.

The island was popular among 19th- and 20th-century artists, including Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, and painting classes are still held today at the Sauzon harbor. Knowledge acrylic-polyester upholstery fabric in Thought by Architex. Photography by Eric Laignel.