Sea-View Villa Project above Marina di Scarlino

This house has not been built yet. What stands on the site today is the stone structure in the first photograph. Every other image is an architectural rendering of the approved design. The price covers the land, the existing structure, the approved project and the execution of the works, so it is sold turnkey, but you are buying a design, not a finished house, and the timetable is a question worth asking early. The highest hill above the harbour, with Elba on the horizon. On the summit of the highest hill above the Marina di Scarlino harbour, surrounded by thousands of hectares of protected Mediterranean scrub in the Tuscan Maremma. The view runs across the Gulf of Follonica to Elba, and on the clearest days as far as Corsica. The approved design reinterprets a masseria, clean lines, low volumes, walls in textured rustic plaster in warm Mediterranean tones. The building opens west to take the sunset, and curves to shelter what sits behind it. Behind the villa, a private east-facing courtyard forms the entrance to the master suite. Terracotta mashrabiya screens filter the light through the day, which is the idea the whole design turns on. 188 m² of interior, three bedrooms and three bathrooms, a panoramic pool, and 1,000 m² of grounds. Follonica is ten minutes down the hill and Punta Ala fifteen.