It was 12 years ago when interior designer Chlöe Elkerton first took her mother on a trip to Sri Lanka. What started as a casual family holiday inadvertently set a new future in motion for the designer, turning the country into her new preferred travel destination and even a second home. “I would go there as often as I could. Any long weekend, I’d be like, I’m going to Sri Lanka,” she recalls.
Elkerton and her mother found themselves returning to one particular beachside property, owned by an Italian architect they had grown close
