Experiences
A boat at dawn, a private cellar at dusk, a guide who opens doors that stay closed.
In the house
Market at seven, dinner at nine, and nothing in between for you to arrange.
Your chef arrives the day before you do. Menus are shaped around how you actually eat — long lunches, late suppers, children fed early — and the shopping is done at the market nearest the house.
On the water
A skippered boat, a cove nobody else has found, and lunch aboard.
We keep relationships with a small number of skippers in each region. The day is planned the evening before, around the wind, and changed on the morning if the wind changes.
Food & wine
Estates that do not take bookings, kitchens that close for you.
Private tastings in cellars that receive no public visitors, and dinners at tables that are otherwise not available — arranged quietly, in advance, through people we have known for years.
Culture
A curator after hours, a monastery before dawn.
Art historians, archaeologists and curators who take one group at a time. Sites are visited when they are empty, which usually means very early or very late.
Wellbeing
Treatments, training and a practitioner who comes to the house.
Massage, physiotherapy, pilates and breathwork practitioners who travel to the villa on your schedule, with equipment installed before arrival.
Family
Instructors, minders and afternoons that run themselves.
Sailing and tennis instructors, qualified nannies with references we have checked ourselves, and plans that give the adults an unhurried lunch.