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Architect Ignacio Urquiza explains that in Valle de Bravo, everyone has two living rooms, an interior and exterior. “You spend the whole year in the exterior because of the weather, even if it’s raining. All the interior spaces become abandoned. We wanted to erase the interior one. With the design of the windows, it would turn into the exterior façade. That was an important part of the project.”

The hallway on the first floor has a runner by Beni Rugs, a pair of vintage Carlo Scapa chairs, and a ’60s rosewood mirror by Aksel Kjersgaard.

The author boiling water for coffee on the porch of Bivacco Zappelli.

Set in the heart of Lisbon, the building extends a warm welcome with its striking tile facade.

The interior is kept clean and pure, making it easy for the owner to live in, and creating a contrast with the "rough and shaggy

Designers Christopher Robertson and Vivi Nguyen-Robertson conceived their house as an unfolding sequence of simple geometric forms: a low concrete wall, a concrete cube, and a boxclad in Siberian larch.

Large windows allow natural light to sweep across the living and dining areas into the kitchen.