This charming guesthouse is located in the hollow of the Alpilles, a small range of mountains in Provence, southern France and stands on a hundred years old olive tree hillside. Visitors can stay in the white, blue, pink or yellow room, each with its own character and personality. Stone walls, gravel on the ground, and […]
This is a small outbuilding in the Belgian countryside has been extended and transformed into a house, now a bed and breakfast. The design was masterminded by architecture firm Atelier d’Architecture Bruno & Partners, who introduced steel sheets into the existing structure to create a mezzanine floor; the aim then was to extend these sheets […]
‘Under the Moonlight House’ is an immaculately crafted art form, designed by one of Italy’s leading architects, Giovanni D’Ambrosio. The home was built within the scenic Australian mountains in one of Victoria’s premier ski resorts, the Dinner Plain Village, overlooking Mount Hotham. Constructed of steel, concrete, timber and locally quarried stone, D’Ambrosio created a structure […]
The New York Times voted Puglia as southern Italy’s most up-and-coming destinations and rightly so. Villa Santoro is located in the Valle d’Itria region, of Puglia with its rolling hills, meadows and ancient olive groves. Rebuilt by a Milanese and Austrian architect/designer duo, Bricchi-Marksteiner, this is a small masseria (farmhouse) that encompasses two trulli, witch-hat […]
Argentines Federico Bonomi and Cynthia Kern purchased this 1850’s original farmhouse in Uruguay with the idea of turning it into a hotel. When the restoration was over they decided to keep it as their own second home. It is located in Carmelo which is a short distance from the border with Argentina. Well out of the […]
This beautiful tropical villa was designed by Javier Barba in 2002 on the island of Mykonos, Greece. Mykonos is among the most fabled of all the Greek isles, slap in the middle of the Aegean. Nowhere else, it seems, has the water ever looked this deeply mysterious, not least because it contrasts so inherently with […]
The plan of “The Stone House” was inspired not so much by modern architecture, but from traditional buildings in the region, the so-called stone towers. This incredible stone house has a very natural warm quality to it, incorporating exposed concrete and limestone with natural wood beams and an open ceiling to see the countryside. Architecture […]
Located in Byron Bay, Australia, this breathtaking home features gorgeous landscaping with exotic tropical gardens and flowers that flourish all year round. The stone walls and wooden elements of the house are impressive design elements, but what can really leave one speechless is the natural environment. The lush vegetation and numerous palm trees make this […]
On an island off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, architect Steven Harris and interior designer Lucien Rees Roberts, both from New York, restored a 15th-century stone house as a vacation getaway for themselves. The residence, part of a compound, overlooks the harbor. The designers used handmade Tuscan terra-cotta roof and floor tiles and preserved and […]
