"This five-bedroom home is a respite of shade and calm in the middle of this designated Pueblo Mágico 35 miles southwest of the Michoacán capital of Morelia. When restoring the villa, Basque architect Miguel Arregui and French owner Sandra Chollet, previously a buyer at Barneys New York, worked a tricky alchemy, astutely blending global design with the region's rich craft traditions. One of Chollet's most prized family heirlooms, an antique Algerian wedding chest that belonged to her grandparents, sits in the entryway; in the living room hang copper light fixtures in the shape of calla lilies that were designed by Arregui and produced by master coppersmiths from the neighboring village of Santa Clara del Cobre. The bedrooms, overlooking the fragrant jasmine, mandarin, and lemon trees of the three interior courtyards, have cream-colored textured walls inspired by a Moroccan plaster technique and bed covers that were woven at the La Fábrica de San Pedro heritage textile factory in nearby Uruapan."
