The Zed

Set into this slope, a contemporary villa holds its position, facing the channel and the open sea before it, and the mountain behind. The house sits parallel to the contour — its western face clad in local coursed stone, its seaward face open in full-width glass — so that what meets the eye from the road is mass and texture, and what opens on the other side is all water and sky. The approach is through the arrival courtyard: a narrow passage of gravel and stepping stones between the stone wall...