SARANAC

Invoke memories of slower times and a different pace of life. Riverside, lakeside, seaboard. Bounded with cinematic landscapes, giant redwoods and cavernous skies. Imagine the perfect temperature, a moment in the day when nothing intrudes. Add comfort of an unprecedented level packaged with definitive style and premium materials. Picture this luxury outdoors. Without the constraints of four walls, where instead your limits are the horizon and an ever expanding canopy, pinned with infinite stars.

Into The Woods

Anchored to a Braga hillside high above the Cávado River this concrete, glass and timber fortress protects its occupants from the world behind cantilevered shutters. The only interference, a chattering mountain stream - winds through the architecture to spill from a naturally filtered pool - escaping beneath a vast terrace in the expansive gardens below.

For all its presence, this striking family home by firm Carvalho Araújo, hunkers down amongst old winding roads and hillside plots - almost disappearing amongst the tall eucalyptus. Only upon entering this imposing sanctum can you really appreciate its scale.