Fiona & Anatole’s French home

A pool addition and landscaping to a detached holiday villa near Narbonne in Languedoc-Rousillon.

The scheme was inspired by the work of Mexican architect, Luis Barragán, with terraces, steps, rubble limestone walls, oak screens and pergolas, and planted cypresses, which are designed to integrate the villa and pool into the landscape, to take advantage of views over the surrounding vineyards and garrigue to the Mediterranean Sea, and to create a series of patios, with shelter from the sun and the Mistral.