Outdoor living

The deck, the pool, and the lawn that ends at the horizon.

The living pavilion opens on three sides onto a covered deck, the pool, and a lawn that runs to the edge of the hillside. Sun loungers on the grass, an outdoor lounge, and a dining table under the roof.

Most of a day here happens outside: breakfast on the deck before anyone else is up, the long hours by the water, then dinner under the roof as the light goes long.

Poolside lawn with loungers under open sky, timber deck and the sea horizon beyond the cable railing

01 The pool

Dark water, a wooden deck, grass all around it.

The pool sits between the living pavilion and the edge of the lawn, its deck in timber, its water dark against the green. It is the middle of the plan rather than an ornament at the end of a garden: the living pavilion looks straight at it, and every bedroom is a few steps away.

An immersion alarm certified to the French NF P90-307-1 standard is fitted, and the pool is serviced twice a week. There is no fence — the water here is watched rather than shut away.

Pool and lawn beside the white pavilion, bamboo hedge screening the view and the green hillside behind

View through white louvre shutters onto the wooden pool deck, lawn loungers and the sea

Straight-down drone view of the villa’s shingled roof pavilions, pool and lawn with three loungers

Front elevation of the villa’s living pavilion opening onto the pool and lawn, hills rising behind the roofline

The pool from the front of the living pavilion, hills rising behind the roofline.

Dark-stone plunge pool bordered by lawn, three loungers facing the open sea

02 Lawn and loungers

Six loungers, and grass to the edge.

The lawn runs from the pool deck to a cable railing at the edge of the terrace, where the hillside drops away toward the sea. Six sun loungers, low outdoor sofas, a few wooden benches, and lamps you charge during the day and carry out after dinner.

It is the part of the property people underestimate from photographs: flat grass, in full sun until late afternoon, with nothing built on it.

03 Under the roof

The table for six, in the shade.

The covered deck carries the dining table — solid oak, six chairs — with the open kitchen immediately behind it, so whoever is cooking is never out of the conversation.

This is the shaded half of the day: long lunches, cards, the laptop nobody meant to open, and dinner once the light goes long.

Solid oak dining table under the covered terrace, open kitchen and tropical planting against a stacked-stone wall

Outdoor linen sofa on the covered terrace, pool in front and the green hills of Saint-Jean Bay beyond

04 Outdoor showers

Three showers under the sky.

Each bedroom pavilion has an outdoor shower of its own: matte black fittings on travertine, walled in stone and timber, shaded by palms overhead.

It is the shortest way from the pool back into the house, and the reason the bathrooms stay dry all week.

Open-air shower corridor between the villa’s timber wall and a stacked-stone wall, shaded by palms overhead

Matte black rain shower and handheld spray mounted on a travertine-tiled wall, bamboo towel ladder alongside

Sweeping aerial panorama of Saint-Jean Bay, turquoise surf breaking at the foot of green hills

Saint-Jean Bay from the air — the water the lawn looks toward.

05 The view

Saint-Jean Bay, and the hills between.

Located on the heights of Anse des Cayes, with views toward Saint-Jean Bay and the surrounding hills.

From the lawn the ground falls through green slopes to the water. The horizon is open, the light crosses it all day, and the last of it goes over the ridge long after the pool is in shade.

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