Holiday homes

In an extract from Classic by Design, the latest book to chronicle Michael S Smith's work, Andrew Ferren introduces a beautiful Mallorcan house

Holidaying on Menorca, antique dealer Dorian Caffot de Fawes and his interior designer husband Thomas Daviet felt an immediate affinity for the capital Mahon and its burgeoning art scene. It led them to make the unexpected decision to create a beautiful home for themselves, and a base for their business, on the Spanish island

Keen to create a synergy between the century-old stone building and the Hebridean landscape, Saffron Aldridge and her business partner Scarlett Supple commissioned local artisans to help restore and decorate it with a nature-inspired palette and beautifully balanced textiles

When Max Sinsteden started decorating his Rhode Island cottage, he kept the colours neutral in order to let his beloved collection of treasures shine

Having inherited a derelict merchant's house on the Greek island of Patmos, designer Melina Blaxland-Horne and her husband Dimitri set about salvaging abandoned elements of its period interiors before embarking on a careful and characterful restoration

A Provençal stone farmhouse with its origins in the 17th century and a glamorous past has been renovated by its owner, the furniture designer Victoria Stainow, to create an inviting home and the perfect showcase for the chic pieces she sells through her company

Doyenne of fabrics Carolina Irving has turned her eye for texture and print to creating a diminutive but super stylish house full of bottle greens and rusty reds. Her friend, the interior designer Remy Renzullo, explains.

Interior designer Tino Zervudachi has transformed this house in the Bahamas from dark and unpromising into bright and breezy, with cool blue and white colour schemes that enhance the reworked layout inside, and wraparound terraces outside with spectacular ocean views.

In an extract from his new book ‘The Iconic British House’, Dominic Bradbury takes us through one of Britain's most entertaining recent buildings, the holiday rental and secular retreat ‘A House for Essex’, designed by the artist Grayson Perry in collaboration with FAT Architecture

Small spaces always present their own peculiar challenges, but Isabella Worsley was determined to work with the quirks and charm of this house in Hove, rather than fight against them

It is hard to imagine that this island villa was once flashy and overdone, so beautifully have interior designers Martin Hulbert and Jay Grierson introduced pale tones, natural textures and pared-back furnishings to create spaces that feel at one with the sun-kissed surroundings

In an extract from 'Jacques Grange: Recent Work' by Pierre Passebon, we visit the Portuguese village of Comporta, where the designer has created a holiday idyll in the local vernacular.

Travels in the Cyclades inf luenced the decoration of Rebecca Körner’s house on Mykonos, in which the Australian interior designer has combined bold mid-century pieces with stylish elements in natural materials

Taking on a brief to create a holiday mood in this house on the coast of Kent, Nicola Mardas has filled it with bright colours and bold patterns, making it an irresistible retreat from city life

In an extract from Miguel Flores-Vianna's new book Haute Bohemians: Greece, the author explores the magical world of the designer's historic Lindos house

The Argentinian architect Mario Connio has spent four decades transforming this traditional Andalucian farmhouse into a bright and welcoming retreat.

A longstanding love affair with Mallorca led the owner of Bennison Fabrics and her husband to make a home there, and their translation of a classic English aesthetic to this new setting is a masterclass in pattern and placement

Having sold their house in Wiltshire, Charlie and Tweenie Wrey decided on a whim to move to southern Sri Lanka, where they have built a calm, comfortable house in the local architectural vernacular and embraced a relaxed way of life

Ben Tindall, an architect, and his wife, sculptor Jill Watson, have created a simple, unfussy holiday house in a fisherman's cabin on the coast of Scotland