• Villa Amonita

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Photography: Romana Ella Placek 
11 / 01 / 2025
In one of the most magical islands in the Canary Islands archipelago – known for its volcanoes, lava fields, black earth and eternal associations with the writer José Saramago – a house was conceived that takes its name from one of the most fascinating fossils in palaeontology. It's Villa Amonita, in Lanzarote.  
Located where sandy desert meets dark lava, in the small village of Tiagua, also pays a tribute to its former owners, who were avowedly passionate about natural treasures.
They left countless books and stones in the house, and adorning the terrace is an ammonite fossil, discovered in the Middle Atlas in Morocco and dating back to the Cretaceous period. Radka and Jakub Valovi stumbled upon this house – originally designed by the local firm Diseño Lanzarote – and decided to renovate it while respecting the planning regulations that make Lanzarote so harmonious: the white-coloured architecture contrasting with the black lava landscape and desert vegetation. This combination also became the motif and inspiration for the interiors. In collaboration with their team from the OOOX collective, the duo grounded the project in simple interventions and the intention to partially modify the interior layout, since the house had originally only served the couple living here before and all the spaces were too large.  
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The changes include the combination of ambiences in the social area, the long dining table and the yoga studio, 
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