Villa Sciartoja by Chris Dyson Architects

1/22/2010 10:52 AM EST

Villa Sciartoja is a new luxury holiday home for a private client and his young family. It has six bedrooms over two floors, and is set into the hillside overlooking the bay of Cannes.

At the entrance to the house, a large raised terrace provides a shaded arcade to the bedrooms and garden below, while offering extensive views. A large swimming pool is surrounded by timber decking providing a cool place to chill through the long hot summer months.

Inside, each bedroom is served by its own bathroom, and the high-specification kitchen is configured to open out into the open-plan dining and living area. A former attic room forms a study bedroom with a crow's nest and roof terrace looking out towards the sea. In the garden, low smooth rendered walls enclose Mediterranean plants and a consistent palate of Mediterranean white pervades the interior and exterior of the house.

The entire project was designed and completed in nine months.

Chris Dyson Architects is an award-winning practice based in London. Their work includes a series of spectacular restorations of historic townhouses in London, as well as a growing portfolio of contemporary projects across the UK and around the world. In France, alongside Villa Sciartoja, Chris Dyson Architects are also creating a boutique hotel for Relais & Chateaux in Pau.

Project information:

Client: Private
Project vallue: €300,000
Site area: 2400 sq m
House: 380 sq m
Terrace: 450 sq m
Pool: 300 sq m
Architects: Chris Dyson Architects
Project management: Paper & Stones
Contractor: Clean Living

Further information and high-resolution images are available on request from Goodfellow Communications.

All images should be credited to Rudy Burbant.