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One island, several front doors
Calivigny’s trio of cottages and two named houses give a single invited party several ways to live together.
Private hospitality,
in close-up.
Twenty arguments about the rooms, people, service and places that make a stay.
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The courtyard before the view
At Kasbah Tamadot, GRAS adapts an inward-looking house type to a site that turns towards Morocco’s mountain landscape.
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What 350 birdhouses can tell us
Treehotel’s Biosphere makes an ecological intention unusually visible. Its architectural image and its ecological outcome require different kinds of attention.
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The chef and the host on Amanzoe’s amenity list
The three-bedroom villa lists a chef and a host beside its rooms and facilities, allowing the labour of a private stay to enter the description.
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Glen Affric has more than one clock
A private household can be reserved for a stay. The surrounding woodland belongs to a conservation account whose dates and decisions extend much further.
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Villa Alba and the shared car keys
An included 4×4 extends the Castiglion del Bosco farmhouse into the estate and region. Its usefulness depends on how a shared resource is divided.
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Who gets a table at Planinka?
Vila Planinka’s restaurant welcomes outside diners. Its private-rental invitation asks the same shared rooms to support another kind of company.
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When a vestibule becomes a bedroom
At Les Sources de Caudalie, Au Cœur des Sources gains sleeping places by asking a boudoir and vestibule to change their work.
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The bath under the frangipani
At Capella Lodge’s Lidgbird Pavilion, bathing and lounging cross the walls. The advertised area counts both sides of that boundary.
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A bar in the olive mill
At São Lourenço do Barrocal, inherited agricultural spaces acquire new occupations while farming continues on the estate.
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The towel stays out of Zaborin’s water
Two onsen per suite give bathing a personal timetable. The customs continue when the company changes.
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Twice daily, weekly
Finca Cortesin’s hotel residences and real-estate rentals give the work of keeping a house two different schedules.
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The inhabited forest beyond Mashpi’s glass
Connecting rooms, a shared lodge and the Chocó Andino region offer three different scales of belonging.
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The modernity inside the fort reference
Alila Jabal Akhdar borrows doors, rafters and stonework from a historic vocabulary to describe a contemporary mountain retreat.
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At Cayo Espanto, dinner gives the dock another job
Published dock dining connects two different arrangements of privacy: Olita’s walled garden and Ventanas’s overwater address.
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The room before the gorillas
Bisate Reserve’s mudroom acknowledges the preparations around an encounter whose terms are set beyond the lodge.
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At Awasi Mendoza, the guide is part of the room
A private guide and 4×4 extend the accommodation offer into the region. Their allocation explains more than the bedroom count.
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Generosity upstairs
Shishi-Iwa House No.2 keeps its guestrooms compact and puts architectural emphasis over the space people share.
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The community has a day of its own
Tierra Atacama offers an apartment for six. The landscape beyond it has other hosts, schedules and authorities.
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Buahan and the work a door usually does
Terrain can help screen an open pavilion. Privacy still needs a boundary between being looked after and being available.