Villa Sessana

Set in the slow countryside above the town of Ostuni in Puglia's Valle d'Itria, surrounded by olive trees, open land, and the slower rhythm of southern Italian rural life, Villa Sessana sits within a 1,500-square-metre Mediterranean garden with a private 4 x 10 metre pool, an outdoor kitchen and pergola for slow breakfasts and long lunches, and a small fire pit for evenings under the southern Italian sky.

A 124-square-metre villa with three double bedrooms surrounding a central living area, Villa Sessana opens through a pass-through window from the indoor dining table to the outdoor pergola, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside, with a green marble kitchen backsplash, a master bedroom with views across the surrounding countryside, marble sinks and rain showers in the bathrooms, and minimal furnishings selected to feel calm and uncrowded.