SENSATIONAL SARDINIA HOME  

STUNNING LOCATION
Set in a Mediterranean marquis woodland park, two stupendous villas standing on the Capo Testa promontory, in front of the eponymous Parco Marino, in an area characterized by a unique naturalistic fascination and a wholly uncontaminated habitat.

Expertly integrated into the fascinating context of Capo Testa, the two properties stand on land divided into two fully independent parts.

ARCHITECTURE AND STYLE
Built in 1970s, the two villas were recently entirely renovated by the famous artist Jean Claude Le Suisse, who reinterpreted the original features and style and achieved a very high quality of architectural and interior design.

Not only the external area but also the interior have been reassessed thus creating a home that externally is in harmony with the environment and inside with the human environment. The exterior fits harmoniously into the landscape, taking its cue from nature, vegetation, and the rocks, while the soft lines of the arches, niches and internal spaces create natural flowing itineraries so that the house offers the feeling of a natural, deep and illuminated pathway. The interiors are full of niches, virtually unbroken lines, and areas for simple living characterized by a fascinating structure that echoes the history of the island.

The continuity between the exterior and interior, the pavement in cotto matching the color of the earth, the marquis footpaths, and the cork oaks are in sharp contrast with the intense white paint ever ready to recreate the natural shadows that create depth.

In addition, the villas have been enhanced by details and features rooted in indigenous architecture and the popular artisan tradition thanks to an interpretation of the local characteristics and the stylistic and emotional dictates of this territory. Every space has been carefully exploited and optimized thanks to the interplay of protrusions, recesses, snug angles and openings for light.

THE MAIN VILLA
Villa Caladea is made up of an ample living – dining room, kitchen, two en-suite bedrooms, and a utility room. The house is completed by inhabitable panoramic covered and uncovered verandas, creating an architectural continuum between the interior and the exterior.

The hand-built stone swimming pool recalls a stretch of water that, on account of the movement of the terrain, recreates the effect of a stream. The well cared for garden, enhanced by Mediterranean vegetation and granite sculptures, affords a stupendous sea view. In addition, there is an area dedicated to a kitchen garden.

The position has been designed so that the two villas are fully independent thanks to a stonewall and large rocks performing an aesthetic as well as practical function. The dry walling around the two villas, in addition to delimiting the boundaries, repairs them from marine breezes but not the aromas of myrtle and brine.

The materials used are of very high value, and hard to find. They have been expertly crafted by artisans and architects who learned their trade in the Costa Smeralda. Such materials reveal the high level of artisanship of the builders, and the fabrication techniques concealed behind such masterpieces. There are formulas and details that recount the history and nature of the island, and plenty to indicate and refer to local places and Sardinian culture. The craftsmanship belongs to a culture that can always surprise us, and one that can expresses its imagination in the arduous laying out of natural stones in facades to create a play of color, intensities of light and a balanced distribution of weight.