Craft · 7 min read
The Art of the Private Villa
What separates a beautiful house from a residence that actually works for a group of twelve.
Photographs are unreliable. A house can be extraordinary in every frame and unusable in practice — bedrooms of wildly unequal quality, a kitchen designed for a couple, no shade anywhere after two in the afternoon.
We look for balance first. Equivalent rooms. A kitchen a chef can work in. Somewhere to sit in the morning and somewhere else entirely for the evening.
The rest — the view, the architecture, the pool — matters enormously. But only once the house works.
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