Iconic architecture: The mediterranean style.
There are plenty of properties around the world that can awaken Mediterranean dreams. The online magazine Luxury Defined from Christie’s International Real Estate recently presented a few highlights from their range that are actually on the market if you would like to make your dreams come true. The magazine defined the mediterranean style as follows: “All it took was a few thousand years of living for us humans to notice how certain structural designs made sense for a warm, sunny climate: Tile roofs shed the rain. Thick stucco walls kept out the heat. Big, wide windows let in light, even on cloudy days, and admitted breezes in sultry weather.”
Luxury Defined celebrates the order of Mediterranean architecture, a state of mind regardless of locale, an idea about life and how it should be lived and lived well. Tick off the boxes: Stucco, tile, symmetrical facades, arched doors, loggias, wrought-iron balustrades, all of it architecture that creates a lifestyle. Elemental. Organic to site and landscape, to water, earth, light, and air.
Here, then, are five wonderful exemplars of that style, in places both near and far from vine-cloaked, sun-soaked land- and seascapes of the Mediterranean.