Slow Casa is a media company dedicated to design-first homes in rural European locations.

About

Most of the best houses in Europe are not in cities. They are at the end of dirt roads, on hillsides above the sea, in valleys that emptied out a century ago and are slowly filling again. Some are new. Many are old buildings brought back by people who cared enough to do it properly.

Slow Casa exists to find them, and to tell you who made them and how. We are interested in the decisions behind a building as much as the finished thing: the material someone chose because it came from the next valley, the ruin somebody spent six years rebuilding by hand, the reason a window faces the way it does.

The houses are the way in. The people who build them are the point.

History

Slow Casa started in 2026 as a directory of architect-designed houses to rent in rural Europe, built by Swedish and Australian duo Ida and Luke Jakobson. Inspired by their years spent living between the Stockholm archipelago and the Balearic islands, they set out to keep track of the most extraordinary houses worth knowing about, and it grew from there.

What became obvious quickly was that the houses were the smaller half of the story. Behind each one was an architect who had thought hard about a difficult site, or a family who had spent years rebuilding something everyone else had given up on. Those conversations were more interesting than the listings.

So Slow Casa is becoming a publication: still with the directory at its centre, but built around the people making these places rather than the places alone. Written first, with film to follow.