Drive an hour north from Porto and the landscape becomes hilly. As I head toward the town of Caminha, the road winds into the valleys, while waves crash onto the shores of the vast ocean stretching out to the left. We’re by Portugal’s border with the Spanish region of Galicia, whose Santa Tecla mountain rises tall across the bay. When the architect Sergio Fernandez acquired a patch of land here, on a hillside overlooking the mouth of the Minho river, there were no homes nearby. It was the early 1970s, and he built two identical houses side by side, one for himself and another for the friend with whom he had purchased the plot. “I wanted it to be similar to the land, ” explains Fernandez, who has driven me from Porto to his mountain retreat. At 85, This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Seven Buy Now Related Stories Design Interiors Issue 49 Mimi Shodeinde An audience with the architect. Interiors Issue 48 Last Night What did interior designer Beata Heuman do with her evening? Interiors Issue 45 Home Tour: Ollivier & Gladys Chenel A pas de deux inside an antiques-filled Paris apartment. Interiors Issue 44 Home Tour: Gergei Erdei Inside the London apartment uniting Greek mythology, medieval iconography and 1970s glamour. Interiors Issue 43 Home Tour: Rose Uniacke An elegant palazzo—in Pimlico. Design Interiors Issue 41 Home Tour: Patricia Reid Baquero Cloistered behind ancient walls and crammed with a catalog of curios, an interior designer’s Santo Domingo home is an autobiography writ from ruins.
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