Villa Branco

A cupola foyer opens into a small garden courtyard surrounded by wide walkways with gleaming off-white stone flooring. To the right, past an enormous vintage trunk, is a larger rectangular courtyard with a swimming pool. Carved white screens and louvered doors around it lead into the home’s bedrooms. One of them has honey-and-cream striped flooring and an intricate inlay chest of drawers. A sprawling living and dining area with arched doorways sits at the intersection of the courtyards. Inside, white woven cane chairs surround an antique wooden dining table, and next to it, a palace door embedded with mirrors, houses a breath-taking wall-to-wall crockery cupboard.  A staircase with vintage flower flooring leads to a bedroom with a sloping roof overlooking the greenery. Spread across the antique bed is an intricate needlework cover. In the bathroom, an ancient marble bird bath serves as an exquisite sink. Villa Branco, bathed in shades of white, soothes every sense.