This well-integrated contemporary addition puts a contemporary spin on some of the defining characteristics of the villa. The rear ‘lean-to’ is now a simple extrusion of the basic envelope of the original villa, with oversized windows and doors that are generous in the way they create light and open connections to the tidy garden. Pared-back elegance is an apt description for this early 1900s house, which is now more than ready to take on the twenty-first century.