Ricardo Bak Gordon sees the architect as the maestro of an orchestra who, amid moments of certainty and doubt, constantly forges ahead to give the best of himself through this discipline. 

Wine, land and art are the three reasons we headed for the acclaimed Sonoma County wine region in California. 

Beyond their Belgian nationality, Bert Jeuris and Ludovic Beun also share a deep passion for Portugal. After numerous trips to the eastern Algarve, the pair decided they had to share this place with the world. 

Reminiscences of Europe and the legendary American Roaring Twenties can be detected at the Commodore Perry Estate, one of the latest luxury hideaways brought to us by the Auberge Resorts group. 

Design, product and furniture design, interior design and architecture. Everything is a process. This is the active method that the Mexican designer Héctor Esrawe applies to his work and to his team of about 50 professionals that includes architects, graphic and industrial designers, engineers and administrative staff. Based in Latin America, the Esrawe studio has been building its projects in different corners of the world. 

It’s with the sound of traditional Portuguese mosaic paving underfoot that we arrive at this “meeting-point for different realities”. 

“Questa casa non è un albergo” (This house is not a hotel). This statement, which also doubles as an installation occupying one of the walls of Palazzo Daniele, reminds us that this boutique hotel located in Gagliano del Capo, in southern Italy, was designed to provide an experience. Ludovica and Roberto Palomba (Palomba Serafini Associati), the architects responsible for transforming this 19th century aristocratic building, emphasise the idea, acknowledging that “it was paramount to design the experience above all”. 

A residence where amazement provides the epigraph to a mise-en-scène of arts and contrasts, and where monotony has been banished.

They communicate who they are through the space they have created as their home. The exacting details, the ethereal elegance and the restrained use of colour confirm this. 

Located on a hill in Bali, Indonesia, Villa Rumah Fajar leads vernacular architecture into a contemporary world, in an exercise that proves that luxury can also be simple. 

Unusual as a whole and reflecting the local geomorphological profile, ‘Casa na Costa do Castelo’ extends and unfolds as we climb upwards.

Five years after inaugurating Casas Caiadas, Mário Domingues and Paula Cabrito once again demonstrate their love for this town in Portugal's Alentejo region, but this time in the form of an urban refuge.