On the coast at Kaplankaya, a private residence by OAB descends across the site in a series of terraces, the architecture cut to read with the land rather than against it. The villa is organized around a tonal palette of warm earth and pale stone, the kind of color story that doesn't compete with a Turkish coastline but absorbs it.
The plan moves with deliberate looseness. Exterior levels step down toward the water, flexible in their use, and the building's interior opens through expansive glazing that erases the threshold between rooms and landscape. The result is a house that asks to be moved through, not occupied in any fixed way.
The living room is the project's most resolved gesture. A sculptural Focus fireplace anchors one end. The furniture program, developed with Interni's Creative Team, builds across designed objects, artworks, and quietly authored seating, the kind of room that holds equally well for a single reader and a full table of guests. Off the main reception, a smaller gathering area is composed around rugs and ottomans designed by Patricia Urquiola for Gan Rugs, a softer register without dropping the rigor.
The principal bedroom is given over to curves. Ligne Roset's Desdemone bed, with its rounded headboard, sits in conversation with Vitra's Freeform sofa. A reading corner is built into the room with the Ptolomeo bookshelf by Opinion Ciatti and bespoke walk-in joinery worked into the wall. The children's rooms carry the same caliber of selection at scale: the Joe armchair by De Pas, D'Urbino, and Lomazzi for Poltronova, pieces from Oliver Furniture, Ingo Maurer's Flutterby lamp, the Dadone ottoman by Riva 1920.
The exterior was composed in grays. Furnishings from Paola Lenti and Kettal hold the rhythm, the cool tones working as a foil to the planted slopes and the water beyond.
