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Table d'hote style dining features local and traditional dishes, accompanied by the Quinta’s own winesBicycle hire
Take advantage of the bicycle rental and explore the area on two wheelsSwimming Pool
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A perfect blend of 19th-century rural Portuguese authenticity with 21st-century creature comforts comes courtesy of talented designer Pierre Yovanovitch who has managed to absolutely capture the soul of a Douro quinta. Drawing on traditional Portuguese materials from terracotta floor tiles to hand-painted wall tiles in deep glossy green or blue and white, Yovanovitch has overlaid this with antique or bespoke furniture, drawings from David Nash, Moroccan straw mats and contemporary fixtures such as the pale pink glass bubbles suspended over the kitchen table (itself of note having a map of the region hand-painted on its tiled surface) which came from a collaboration with Swiss glassmaker Matteo Gonet.
Originally published by Mary Lussiana, The Telegraph
When French winemaker Philippe Austruy first bumped along this estate’s dusty, semi-paved track back in 2012, he fell for it on the spot. The sun-scorched vineyards were so primitive only pickaxes and horse-drawn ploughs could tame them; the white, ochre-yellow-framed stucco quinta – standing in solitary splendour on the edge of a UNESCO-protected hillside – had been left to crumble after a drawn-out inheritance battle. Austruy enlisted slick, Paris-based architect Pierre Yovanovitch to transform the low-slung, 19th-century building into an elegant rural hideout without altering any of its original structure.
Originally published by Teddy Wolstenholme, CN Traveller
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