Quinta do Sobrado, Portugal
Past a cobblestone drive, you are greeted by formal rooms and five bedroom suites in the countryside tradition with beautiful views toward Sintra, the surrounding mountains, and nearby beaches. Amid its poolside bower, the golden quinta preserves the charm of…
Neuadd Farm, Cardiganshire, Wales
Neuadd Farm is the kind of place fairy tale dreams are made of. Just over the emerald hills from the dramatic Cardiganshire coast, the endearing 35-acre Welsh demesne is a private courtyard hamlet of 10 rose-covered stone rental cottages crowned…
Sandy Lane Hotel, Sandy Lane, Barbados
As you enter the Caribbean dreamworld through the guarded gates of Sandy Lane Hotel, a five-star magnet for celebrities and captains of industry, the anticipation builds. A private drive through emerald gardens backdropped by the azure sea reveals the villa,…
Casa Linda, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Casa Linda commands Puerto Vallarta from 11,000 square feet of poolside splendor. From its exhilarating public settings to its private suites, the dreamworld showcases South of the Border romance, melding arches and columns, cupolas and stained glass into an ocean-view…
Casa Catalejo, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Casa Catalejo translates Spyglass House—a fitting name for an abode that peeks out at the venerable village of San Miguel de Allende from French window panes and ravishing vine-framed terraces. But the bird’s-eye vignettes are not the gated hacienda’s only…
Waimea, Big Island, Hawaii
A modernist masterpiece of mid-century design incorporating themes of Schindler and Gehry, the 4,400-square-foot hideaway, almost entirely rebuilt in 2003, has been described as livable art. Dramatic spaces showered with light—and riveted on spectacular views of the Big Island’s Mauna…
Hog Cay, Private Island, Exuma, Bahamas
Hog Cay—or Blue Island—the Edenic 700-acre private island 147 miles southwest of Nassau in the Bahamas, beckons with six sugar-spun beaches, coconut palms, mango trees, and a brand new 5,700-foot asphalt jet airstrip. Standing as the striking sentinel, the main…
Makena , Maui, Hawaii
The well-known architect formed his house in Maui to perfectly complement the jewellike peacock blues of the oceanfront and outer islands at Makena—an elite gated tennis enclave. And that it does, with 4,135 square feet of seductive party settings and…