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VERANA: THE DEFINITION OF RETREAT
CONVERSATION WITH HEINZ LEGLER & VERONIQUE LIEVRE
EARN REWARDS WHEN YOU STAY WITH BOUTIQUEHOMES
CABIN LOVE MEETS FAR MEADOW
SIMPLE LUXURY
HOMES THAT STEAL THE SHOW
CONVERSATION WITH LAURA AUSTIN
BEACH HOUSES BY ANDREW GELLER: ARCHITECT OF HAPPINESS
It’s all in the details… Our properties tell a story. Featured top: Veneto Country House. Venice, Italy Apartment Flow. Berlin, Germany Captain’s Rest. Strahan, Tasmania Basque Villa. Urdaibai, Spain Room with a view… Five places you want to wake up to in 2018… Treetop House. Malpais, Costa Rica Peninsula House. Borgarnes, Iceland Anzan House. Lake Atitlan, Guatemala Isleta El Espino. Granada, Nicaragua Verana. Yelapa, Mexico Events – Plan your event with […]
Captains Rest in Tasmania, Australia, is a cozy coop located in a village of waterfront cottages and filled with an adorable medley of objects. Inside, we found a collection of antique oil paintings that write stories on the cottage’s walls. Sarah Andrews, the owner, started collecting the paintings on her travels, wandering and sailing around the […]
Here’s to the best of 2017… We added a lot of new cool architectural gems for you to explore… including a sky-high cube on top of a mid-century hotel in Graz, Austria (pictured top)… a vibrant pink barn in the Azores… a home within a circle in Spain, a home inside a hill in Austria, a Baltic Sea House with a modern thatched roof in Germany, and Villa Slow in […]
In 2015, Elmar Weinmayr and his wife Fumie were looking for a new space for their Nichinichi Gallery and stumbled upon a traditional townhouse in the historical center of Kyoto, just on the east side of the huge park surrounding the Imperial Palace. The beautiful old building came with an attached kura, or treasure house, making it […]
Take flight over one of our most striking properties… Andre Antunes, journalist, TV producer and owner of Modern by the Sea in Comporta, Portugal, shared this great video of his property with us. A contemporary villa just minutes from the ocean, it was designed by Pedro Ferreira Pinto and built in 2010 to blend into […]
You don’t need snow to have a white Christmas… Experience white holidays in our homes from Madrid to Los Angeles. Featured top: Salamanca Apartment, Madrid, Spain. El Palauet. Barcelona, Spain Villa Ashyana. Puglia, Italy Tabernas House. Almeria, Spain Curly’s Cove. Bodega Bay, California White House & Cabin. Comporta, Portugal Charlevoix Cabin. Quebec, Canada White Castle. Nisyros, Greece Cortijo in Malaga. Andalusia, Spain Pierre Koenig’s Scott House. Los Angeles, […]
Days are getting shorter, and nights are getting longer… Spend cozy evenings and long winter nights in these great properties around the world. Pictured top: Capelas Retreat, Azores, Portugal. El Caracol. Lledo, Spain Kura298. Kyoto, Japan Glass Cabin. Laconner, Washington Ridgetop Retreats. Deep Creek, Australia Hout Bay Villa. Cape Town, South Africa La Palma Villa. Canary Islands, Spain The Schwartz House. Two Rivers, Wisconsin Floating Farmhouse. Catskills, New York […]
The Itapororoca Beach House in Trancoso, Brazil is surrounded by beautiful ocean views and decorated with warm personal touches. Francesca, the owner, inspired by her art-dealer father, has spent her life briefing art, and the result is a wonderful collection of treasures from around the world. A brilliant example is this wall piece composed of three […]
Collecting great modern architecture is Christian Bourdais’ passion. With his Spanish wife Eva Albarran, this French art connoisseur has bought a huge expanse of wilderness in Spain, on the border between Aragona and Catalonia, on which to build 15 houses, each designed by one of the most creative architects of our times. For the moment, […]
We’ve found, for you, a very special place. On top of a hill near the charming village of Lumio, Bergerie Above Calvi is a stunning historic property set in 16 hectares of olive groves and immortelle flowers, with views of the amazing island. Take a tour of the landscape in this short film, and find out […]
On the pulse of culture. Find a nest in the big city… check out our collection of stylish city apartments from London to Mexico City, all available as vacation rentals. Pictured top: Berlin Penthouse, Germany. Magnolia Suite. Piedmont, Italy Notting Hill Mews. London, UK Fleissen Apartment. Berlin, Germany Vannes Flat. Brittany, France La Valise. Mexico City, Mexico Antwerp Design Apartment. Antwerp, Belgium Apartments on the […]
Have you ever walked along a street in a new city, looked into the windows of a house you’ve never visited, and dreamed of staying there for a while? If you have, you’ll love the collection of Barcelona apartments offered by Anne Nijstad, a Dutch former graphic designer who has been in the Spanish city […]
Thanks to Jenny Mustard for this great video of Casa Solo Pezo in Aragon, Spain. She visited in November 2017 and had this to say: … let me introduce to the coolest house i’ve ever seen – casa solo pezo ! tucked away in the eastern spanish mountains, it’s every modern minimalist’s dream, with huge sliding window […]
What is it about the A-frame that inspire so much devotion? Little triangular cabins hidden away in forests or perched on mountainsides, these cool structures have an enduring popularity that defies time and place. It may be the simplicity of their lines. Or the fact that they’re all roof. Or the sheer improbability of their […]
Small, cozy and tucked away… Explore our collection of cottages around the world. They come in all shapes and sizes, and range from historical to contemporary. Pictured top: Ivy Roost Cottage, New Forest, England. Chambourcin Cottage. Haumoana, New Zealand Hales Hall Cottage. Norfolk, England Casa Anderson. Trancoso, Brazil Sussex Country House. Rye, England Sky Cottage. Norfolk, England Hen House. Isle of Skye, Scotland Lidingo […]
Villa Elisabeth is a small Corsican family house with a great view overlooking the Mediterranean sea and the island of Elba. But it’s also an artist’s house, inspired by its owner, the sculptor Marie-Pierre Germain-Fortini. When she’s not in the Italian town of Carrara, where she has a studio and creates figures in white marble […]
Great style may be priceless, but there are plenty of vacation home rentals that are stylish and affordable too. Discover our Chic and Cheap collection – cool and very affordable hideaways all around the world… Pictured top: Villa Ashyana, Puglia, Italy. Port-en-Bessin Loft. Normandy, France Fitzroy Apartment. Melbourne, Austrailia Forte Sea House. Sicily, Itlay San Miguel Apartment. Madrid, Spain St. Ives Studio. Cornwall, […]
We often come across fascinating stories within the BoutiqueHomes community, but there was something about this one that really made us pay attention. Pasadena-based graphic designer Nicolette Wales recently reached out to us, wondering if we would be interested in including her mother’s art in our new Marketplace. Ginette Bernas Wales, now 96 and living […]
Photographer Laura Austin recently travelled to Base Camp Yosemite – our go-to cabin in the woods. It’s located just 14 miles from the south entrance to Yosemite, making it very convenient for visiting the National Park. But as you’ll see from Laura’s video, it has its own special appeal…
Explore the vivid colors and glorious details of Spain… Our collection of vacation home rentals in Spain has something for everyone. Pictured top: Mallorca Villa. Casa Cova Blanca. Tivenys, Spain Number Six The Castle. Andalusia, Spain Bohemian Granados. Barcelona, Spain Salamanca Apartment. Madrid, Spain Galician Modern. Galicia, Spain Cana Bosco Villa. Ibiza, Spain Sotogrande Villa. Andalusia, Spain Sky High Penthouse. Barcelona, Spain El Caracol. Lledo, Spain […]
In the center of the French city of Arles, only five minutes from the ancient Roman theater, Michel Montagnier welcomes us to his old Provençal house, La Maison des Arts. He has retained the light and delicate breeze of the past, but has added his own style, with a variety of artworks, furnitures, objects and […]
Hit the road with BoutiqueHomes… Start in the east and head west, with stylish pit stops along the way. Explore our collection of classic vacation home rentals on this road trip across America – from Maine to Washington. Pictured top: The Bracy House, Cape Neddick, Maine. Rhinebeck House. Rhinebeck, New York The Mazant. New Orleans, Louisiana Vintage Round Top No. […]
In Port-en-Bessin, a small Normandy fishing harbor between the D-Day beaches and Mont Saint-Michel, only two and a half hours from Paris, Astrid Barbey and Laurence Berdeaux have opened nine different vacation home rentals. They began with a tiny sailor’s house, with a fantastic view of the harbor and cool marine deco. Simple but comfortable […]
Some like it hot, some like it cold. If you’re looking for a winter escape, there are plenty of options, whether you want to chill by the pool, or warm your toes by the fireside. Here are our favorite choices of winter vacation home rentals. Pictured top: Camamu Bay Villas, Barre Grande, Brazil. Los Cabos […]
In many ways, Casa dos Passaros is typical of Portugal’s Alto Alentejo region – with its bleached white limestone exteriors, ochre trim, and granite stonework. But when you step inside the house, you realize there is so much more to it. This is a work of devotion. Designer Marisa Osorio Farinha bought the property in the 13th-century […]
We’re Heinz Legler and Veronique Lievre, and we created BoutiqueHomes to fill a gap in the vacation rental market, to share homes that stood out from the crowd. In this video, we talk about how it all started, and travel from BoutiqueHomes headquarters in Topanga, California, to Verana in Mexico, and the Geodesic Dome House […]
Our site curator Veronique Lievre developed an eye for design exploring flea markets with her father. And the treasure hunting continues today in her work with BoutiqueHomes. Join us as we explore Verana in Mexico as well as gems from the past, including the Train Station in Bioul, Belgium and Torre di Moravola in Umbria, […]
After reading Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, we were inspired to find out more about some of the small personal museums he describes in the final chapters. Little spaces all over the world, filled with curiosities and objects of wonder – they’re often off the beaten track and a little eccentric. But, in our opinion, […]
Some Mexican walls we actually like… Head south of the border for homes full of color and style. Pictured top: the wildly original beach house Holbox Villa, on Holbox Island in a mostly undiscovered corner of Yucatan. Chapultepec Apartment. Mexico City, Mexico Verana. Yelapa, Mexico Art Deco Hogar. Mexico City, Mexico Villa Yucatan. Merida, Mexico Casa Uruapan. Mexico City, Mexico Las Almas. Oaxaca, Mexico El Portico. Merida, Mexico […]
After eight years hunting for architectural gems, we recently teamed up with Cool Escapes and collaborated with architecture and design publisher Avedition to create a book that sets the design standards for vacation rentals. BoutiqueHomes – Handpicked Vacation Rentals (published October 2017) is a collection of more than 60 uniquely designed vacation homes, and we are delighted to announce that it […]
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