Americas

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…