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Montaulieu · Baronnies Provençales

Les Brumes

A circular house on a terraced hillside above the medieval village of Montaulieu, in the Baronnies P...

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Høve · Odsherred

Barn House and Farm House

Two houses on the same land at Høve in Odsherred, northwest Zealand, rebuilt by the architect and de...

Villa Cardo

Carovigno · Puglia

Villa Cardo

A villa in a hectare of olive and almond groves near Carovigno in Puglia, designed by Studio Andrew ...

Frieda & Johann

Bezau · Bregenzerwald

Frieda & Johann

Two places to stay at the edge of the forest in Bezau, in the Bregenzerwald valley of western Austri...

Glasan

Sleat · Isle of Skye

Glasan

A small cabin for two on the Sleat peninsula of Skye, built by Neil and Laura, two architects at Dua...

10 étangs

Flavion · Wallonia

10 étangs

A holiday house on a six-hectare former fish farm in Wallonia, surrounded by ten spring-fed ponds, m...

Casa Sassello

Brissago · Ticino

Casa Sassello

A 1950s house on a steep slope above Lake Maggiore in Ticino, rebuilt between 2023 and 2026 by the T...

Chalet Falk

St. Oswald · Carinthia

Chalet Falk

A privately run chalet at 1,323 metres in the Nockberge mountains of Carinthia, in southern Austria,...

Haus Moosberg

Gmunden · Salzkammergut

Haus Moosberg

A contemporary house built into a hillside above Lake Traunsee in Gmunden, in the Austrian Salzkamme...

Casa Grande

Chiaramonte Gulfi · Sicily

Casa Grande

A contemporary house set among working vines on Arianna Occhipinti's wine estate in the Iblean hills...

Casa di Pietra

Chiaramonte Gulfi · Sicily

Casa di Pietra

A restored stone farmhouse set inside a working orchard on Arianna Occhipinti's wine estate in the I...

Casa di Legna

Porto Vecchio · Corsica

Casa di Legna

A house perched above Santa Giulia Bay in southern Corsica, near Porto-Vecchio, built originally as ...

Gairnshiel Lodge

Glengairn · Cairngorms

Gairnshiel Lodge

A 1746 hunting lodge in a dip of the glen in the Cairngorms National Park, a stone's throw from Balm...

Laggan Cottage

Glengairn · Cairngorms

Laggan Cottage

An 1880 cottage low in the glen where the River Gairn runs through the Cairngorms National Park, reb...

das Richterhaus

Untergriesbach · Bavarian Forest

das Richterhaus

A 1670 bailiff's house in a hamlet in the southern Bavarian Forest, near Passau, restored by hand ov...

Kallithea Villas

Platanias · Pelion

Kallithea Villas

Seven detached holiday houses on a hillside above the fishing village of Platanias, at the southern ...

The Hilltop House

Hvalfjörður · Iceland

The Hilltop House

A hilltop house on the Hvalfjörður fjord in west Iceland, with 360-degree views over the water and t...

Touchstone House

Andros · Cyclades

Touchstone House

A house on the Greek island of Andros, in the Cyclades, designed by the architect Elina Loukou and c...

Villa Ruhleben

Prerow · Baltic Coast

Villa Ruhleben

A heritage-listed seaside villa from around 1890, in the lively Baltic resort town of Prerow, restor...

Ca' dei Mongi

Brenzone · Lake Garda

Ca' dei Mongi

A wabi-sabi hideaway two kilometres above Lake Garda, in Brenzone, made up of two old stone rustici ...

Villa Capo Zafferano

Santa Flavia · Sicily

Villa Capo Zafferano

A late-1980s modernist villa on the Mongerbino coast of Sicily, thirty metres from the sea and facin...

Casa Caroseno

Castellana Grotte · Puglia

Casa Caroseno

A small guest house in the Puglian countryside between Castellana Grotte and Conversano, restored by...

Le Mas de Chabran

Maussane-les-Alpilles · Provence

Le Mas de Chabran

An eighteenth-century estate at the foot of the Alpilles in Provence, begun in 1738 as an olive mill...

Casa Ter

Alt Empordà · Girona

Casa Ter

A family house on the edge of a lively town in the Empordà, in Catalonia, built by the Barcelona stu...

Casa Corte

Santadi · Sardinia

Casa Corte

A two-bedroom stone house in Luxi Bia, a small 1800s hamlet being carefully brought back to life in ...

Twins

Selca · Brač

Twins

Two identical concrete houses on a hillside above Selca, on the island of Brač, designed by the youn...

Maison Roz

Pont-Aven · Finistère

Maison Roz

A family house above the Aven river in southern Finistère, Brittany, rebuilt by its owners, the arch...

Vipp Cold Hawaii

Vangså · Thy

Vipp Cold Hawaii

A guesthouse in Thy National Park on Denmark's wild northwest coast, in the surf town known as Cold ...

Villa Mandra

Aleomandra · Mykonos

Villa Mandra

A house on the hill of Aleomandra in Mykonos, built by the Athens studio K-Studio, hidden from the r...

Maison Kamari

Kamari · Paros

Maison Kamari

A modern Cycladic house on the island of Paros, in the hamlet of Kamari, designed by React Architect...

Metochi Lodge

Platanos · Crete

Metochi Lodge

A modern stone lodge on a mountainside above the Bay of Falassarna, on the wild west coast of Crete,...

Camino de Playa

Donón · Galicia

Camino de Playa

A modern country house on the wild Galician coast in the northwest of Spain, on the edge of the Cost...

Casanguilla

San Vito dei Normanni · Puglia

Casanguilla

A minimalist modern house set in two acres of olive grove in the Puglian countryside, near San Vito ...

Villa Slow

Valles Pasiegos · Cantabria

Villa Slow

A small design retreat in the Cantabrian mountains of northern Spain, in the green Valles Pasiegos, ...

Casa Luum

Santa Bárbara de Nexe · Algarve

Casa Luum

A modern white house in the hills behind Faro, built by the architect Pedro Domingos out of an old r...

Casa Um

Estiramantens · Algarve

Casa Um

A nineteenth-century shepherds' farmhouse in the hills above Tavira, in the eastern Algarve, reworke...

Casa Utspan

Moncarapacho · Algarve

Casa Utspan

A family holiday house on a hill in the countryside just outside Moncarapacho, in the quiet Eastern ...

Knoten House

Agger · Thy

Knoten House

A modern Danish summer house, handcrafted by a local carpenter, less than five hundred metres from t...

Haus Kienzerleweg

Bad Kohlgrub · Bavaria

Haus Kienzerleweg

A minimalist holiday house built entirely of solid timber at the foot of the Hörnle, in the Ammergau...

Casa Keçe

Haravilliers · Vexin

Casa Keçe

A nineteenth-century barn, an abandoned farmhouse and its old outbuildings, joined together and rema...

Radar

Dungeness · Kent

Radar

A home for two on the open shingle of Dungeness, the wild headland on the Kent coast, built by the a...

El Elevador

El Hierro · Canary Islands

El Elevador

A ruined cliffside water-pumping station on the volcanic island of El Hierro, the westernmost of the...

 U Mulinu Casanelli

Fozzano · Corsica

U Mulinu Casanelli

A ruined hilltop wine press in southern Corsica, brought back to life by its owners with an exposed ...

Black h

Harlosh · Isle of Skye

Black h

A modern blackhouse for two on the wild west coast of the Isle of Skye, designed by the Highland pra...

Casa Mínima

Valles Pasiegos · Cantabria

Casa Mínima

A 150-square-metre former cabaña pasiega, the traditional shepherd's cabin of the Pasiego valleys, r...

Ca’ delle Rondini

Langhe · Piedmont

Ca’ delle Rondini

A 200-year-old Piedmontese stone farmhouse rebuilt from a ruin over a decade and joined to a modern ...

Dezanove House

A Pobra do Caramiñal · Galicia

Dezanove House

A two-part house on a rocky shore of the Ría de Arousa near A Pobra do Caramiñal, on the Atlantic co...

Montinhos

Alcácer do Sal · Alentejo

Montinhos

A cluster of whitewashed farm buildings on a five-generation family estate near Santa Catarina de Sí...

Neuendorf House

Santanyí · Mallorca

Neuendorf House

A 1989 house in an almond grove near Santanyí in southeast Mallorca, designed by John Pawson and Cla...

 Vagar do Pastor

Aldeia dos Orvalhos · Alentejo

Vagar do Pastor

A single-storey 300-square-metre farmhouse on a 2,600-square-metre natural meadow near Aldeia dos Or...

Villa Benkemoun

Arles · Provence

Villa Benkemoun

A 1974 villa in the agricultural plain four kilometres from Arles, designed by Le Corbusier disciple...

Casa Ceppi

Čepić · Istria

Casa Ceppi

A historic rural complex on the Croatian peninsula of Istria, fifteen minutes inland from the Adriat...

Kap A kritas

Vasilitsi · Messinia, Peloponnese

Kap A kritas

A 2024 holiday home on a 300-metre rocky plateau above the Ionian Sea in southern Messinia, Peloponn...

Pantelleria Nikà

Nikà · Pantelleria

Pantelleria Nikà

A pair of dammusi above Nikà bay on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, restored in 2000 by architec...

Bergraum

Mittelberg · Kleinwalsertal

Bergraum

A 2015 holiday home in the Austrian Kleinwalsertal valley of Vorarlberg, designed by Stadtmüller Bur...

House Oskar

Kamenná Lhota · South Bohemia

House Oskar

A 2025 holiday home in the South Bohemian highlands an hour southeast of Prague, designed by Prague ...

Grams Gård

Simris · Österlen

Grams Gård

A restored 1851 farmhouse on a small hill at the edge of the village of Simris in Österlen, southern...

BOS-COS Menorca

Es Castell · Menorca

BOS-COS Menorca

A historic Menorcan home in the small port town of Es Castell, near Maó on the eastern tip of the is...

Project Ö

Skjulskäret · Finnish Archipelago

Project Ö

A self-sufficient retreat of three timber buildings on the two-hectare private island of Skjulskäret...

Konjiček

Lokavec, Vipava Valley

Konjiček

A 115-square-metre bungalow on the edge of a forest above the Vipava Valley in western Slovenia, des...

Vindlyveien

Larvik · Vestfold

Vindlyveien

A preserved 1967 timber summer house on a quiet hillside above the southern Norwegian coast near the...

One Down

Rødhus · Northern Jutland

One Down

A modern holiday home integrated into the dune landscape of Northern Jutland on Denmark's North Sea ...

Casa da Volta

Melides · Alentejo

Casa da Volta

A contemporary fortified house set on twenty acres of arid Alentejo landscape near the village of Me...

Bozonos Slow Living

Ammoudi Beach · Zakynthos

Bozonos Slow Living

A two-bedroom seafront villa on the eastern coast of Zakynthos in the Greek Ionian, designed by DM A...

3 Bicas House

Muda · Comporta

3 Bicas House

A modernist concrete and glass villa set among pine forest and rice fields in the Comporta region of...

Olive Garden Bungalow

Kamilari · Crete

Olive Garden Bungalow

An H-shaped exposed-concrete bungalow set among olive trees on the south coast of Crete, completed i...

Tinos Hearts

Kardiani · Cyclades

Tinos Hearts

Two contemporary villas on a steep hillside above the village of Kardiani on the Cycladic island of ...

La Colline du Colombier

Iguerande · Burgundy

La Colline du Colombier

A countryside estate in the hills of Burgundy designed in 2008 by French architect Patrick Bouchain ...

Villa Jones

Bargemon · Provence

Villa Jones

A RIBA-winning holiday villa by Dixon Jones Architects, set in the olive groves above Bargemon in th...

House B

Mollans-sur-Ouvèze · Drôme Provençale

House B

A Belgian-designed house set into a Provençal hillside in the northern Drôme, its bedrooms half-buri...

Loft by LIEU

Villedaigne · Aude

Loft by LIEU

A former 19th-century wine cellar converted into a 300-square-metre holiday home in the village of V...

Maybe October

Aljezur · West Algarve

Maybe October

A 120-year-old farmhouse built from the land itself in the hills above the small town of Aljezur on ...

Quinta da Lila

Monchique · Algarve

Quinta da Lila

A 130-year-old rural Portuguese estate restored in the hills of the Serra de Monchique in the wester...

Casa Linear

Loulé · Algarve

Casa Linear

A ruin in the rural Algarve interior near the town of Loulé, rebuilt over three years by a Portugues...

Can Lluïssó

Felanitx · Mallorca

Can Lluïssó

An antique Mallorcan farmhouse entirely rebuilt in 2021 using lime, soil, stone, and traditional man...

Monte Abastura

Castro Marim · Algarve

Monte Abastura

A former late 19th-century sheepfold renovated in 2021 in the heart of a private three-hectare prope...

Cabanon Concrete Retreat

Chania · Crete

Cabanon Concrete Retreat

Two contemporary concrete cabins outside the village of Dermitziana in western Crete, designed by ar...

Finca Es Rafal

Alaró · Mallorca

Finca Es Rafal

A working Mallorcan farm at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains near Alaró, with a main house of or...

Pa.te.os

Melides · Alentejo Coast

Pa.te.os

Four contemporary concrete houses set within an 80-hectare wine and farming estate on the Alentejo c...

Es Bec d'Aguila

Alaior · Menorca

Es Bec d'Aguila

A restored 19th-century Menorcan finca on 60 hectares of pastoral countryside between the white inla...

Finca La Inika

San Lorenzo · Ibiza

Finca La Inika

A renovated 17th-century Ibizan finca in the rural north-east of the island near the village of San ...

Villa Sessana

Ostuni · Puglia

Villa Sessana

A 124-square-metre villa in the Ostuni countryside of Puglia, with three double bedrooms, a green ma...

Casa Santa Teresa

Ajaccio · Corsica

Casa Santa Teresa

A handcrafted five-bedroom beach villa on the Corsican coast near Ajaccio, with direct private acces...

Finca Son Ru

Deià · Mallorca

Finca Son Ru

A preserved 13th-century monastery in the UNESCO World Heritage Tramuntana mountains above Deià, set...

En Kyanó

Mykonos · Greece

En Kyanó

A hillside villa on the southwestern coast of Mykonos designed by Studio MacBride for Thomas Heyne o...

Finca Vista Verde

Sineu · Mallorca

Finca Vista Verde

A renovated rural finca on a 14,200 square metre plot in the interior of Mallorca near the historic ...

Casa Plaj

Atalaia · Silver Coast, Portugal

Casa Plaj

A new sculptural holiday house on a ridge above Portugal's Silver Coast, designed by Lisbon architec...

Maison Jalon

Puyricard · Aix-en-Provence

Maison Jalon

A four-room modernist B&B in the countryside outside Aix-en-Provence, designed by its owners in expo...

Villa Sorriso

Castiglioncello · Tuscany

Villa Sorriso

A renovated eight-bedroom hilltop villa on the Etruscan Coast of Tuscany, between Livorno and Cecina...

Baix de S'Era

Alaró · Mallorca

Baix de S'Era

A three-part contemporary finca on the inland plains of Alaró, Mallorca, designed in 2015 by archite...

Casa Esperança

Ses Salines · Mallorca

Casa Esperança

A boomerang-shaped house inside an ancient sandstone wall in Ses Salines, designed by ABM Arquitecto...

Can Bou

Sóller · Mallorca

Can Bou

A renovated stone townhouse on the edge of Sóller in northwest Mallorca, designed by Anke Scheideler...

Villa CP

Girona · Catalonia

Villa CP

A 17th-century Catalan farmhouse on a 60-acre hilltop estate in the Gavarres nature reserve, rebuilt...

Barcelona Sanctuary

Sant Andreu de Llavaneres · Catalonia

Barcelona Sanctuary

A modernist holiday villa half an hour north of Barcelona, built as two white cubes across several h...

Mas Oak

Veciana · Catalonia

Mas Oak

A 170 square metre guest apartment within a historic Catalan masia on a small finca, halfway between...

Can Morera

Porto Petro · Mallorca

Can Morera

A five-hectare seaside estate on Mallorca's southeast coast, designed by Argentine-born architect Al...

Corni di Fiasco

Maruggio · Puglia

Corni di Fiasco

A single-cone Pugliese trullo restored over five years, set in two hectares of ancient olive grove f...

Spronken House

Les Useres · Valencia

Spronken House

Two sculptural villas by Dutch artist Xander Spronken, set on 7 hectares of almond and olive in the ...

Meraki Studios

Kissos · Crete

Meraki Studios

A six-unit Sigurd Larsen retreat set among old olive groves outside Kissos, with a stone-wall infini...

Casa al Mar

Port Sóller · Mallorca

Casa al Mar

A cubist villa on the slope above Port Sóller, designed by DUO concept. Rooftop pool, two-sided terr...