The Conversation Pit Makes a Big Comeback in These Fabulous Sunken Living Spaces

Decades after Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola codesigned a series of Brutalist villas on the Sardinian coast in the mid-1970s, he returned to compound with a group of younger architects to transform some of the structures into a home for new owners. The renovation by Turin-based studio PAT. includes a swanky mid-pool conversation pit—one of many maximalist ’70s features.