The white-geometric villa

Alongside Vietti's rustic-collage style, other Costa Smeralda architects of the 1960s — Michele Busiri Vici among them — built in a purer geometric register: white cubic volumes, flat planes, sharp modernist lines set directly against granite and sea rather than dressed up as a hamlet. It reads as considerably more contemporary than the mediterranean-collage style, even where the buildings themselves are decades old.

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