When buddies of mine returned from a visit to southern Portugal some time again, they instructed me all about their secret discover: Casa Modesta, a rural visitor home on the Ria Formosa Nature Park within the Algarve. Earlier than proprietor Carlos Fernandes and his sister, Vânia Brito Fernandes, inherited the home from their grandparents, it was a small Nineteen Forties home typical of the area. Vânia, who’s an architect and a accomplice at PAr, a women-run design agency in Lisbon, renovated the home right into a modernist white stucco retreat. Carlos named it after their mom, Modesta Maria, and labored with Albio Nascimento and Kathi Stertzig of The House Mission to design the interiors of the 9 visitor rooms.
Images by Alex Reyto for the Excellent Hideaway, except in any other case famous, all courtesy of Casa Modesta.