STONE CARAVAN
Architect Mark Cannata describes the house he shares with his nine-year year old daughter, Mia, as a “stone caravan”. We’re talking in the modest entrance courtyard to his little house on the edge of Modica, in Sicily’s south-east.
At 50 square metres, the 18th-century home qualifies as tiny by New Zealand standards and pretty small by European. Its small windows, thick stone walls and 200-year-old grape vines are typical of the area. The house feels like it has been there forever – and by New Zealand standards, it has.
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