Nicholas Préaud and Charlotte Taylor, The Lounge at Villa del Soffio, 2021

Who would you hire to design your dream weekend reading spot? We’re currently coveting this elegant lounge imagined by hyper-realistic rendering experts Charlotte Taylor (of Maison de Sable) and Nicholas Préaud (of Ni.acki). The pair first collaborated to conjure up Casa Atibaia, a fantasy home in a São Paulo forest, inspired by the modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. This spacious residence, meanwhile, is the Villa del Soffio, an Italian, modernist seafront villa defined by its graceful lines and lofty height, accentuated by the ceiling-to-floor windows, as well as its calming palette of cream, tan and white.