THIRTY-SIX MEDITERRANEAN SIBLINGS, WITH GOOD BONES AND GREAT STORIES

If you love the marriage of light, architecture, design and heritage across the Mediterranean and its Atlantic edge, UNWAXED LEMONS is made for you.

A summertime magazine for travellers seeking independent hotels bound by a strong thread of design, architecture and creativity, UNWAXED LEMONS curates thirty-six of the most distinctive stays and cultural rendezvous across the Mediterranean and beyond, from the headlands of Portugal and the Basque coast of Spain to Italy, France and the Greek islands, with a Turkish and an Adriatic outlier besides. Across 148 full-colour pages it reads the southern landscape through a contemporary design lens, where light, material and restraint shape every decision.

Southern style is not a trend but a temperament, and the Mediterranean explains itself at a glance. Here architecture has never been imposed on the land so much as drawn out of it, the building rising from the same stone, lime and clay the landscape already held, calibrated over centuries against heat, drought and scarcity. Thick walls hold the cool of the night deep into the afternoon, lime-wash turns away the glare and the courtyard banks shade the way a cistern banks water. From the masseria and the finca to the convent and the whitewashed island house, this is a world of sun, stone and shade, pursued in the name of shelter rather than show. Beauty followed naturally.

On sale July 2026. Soft bound, full colour, 148 pages, 24 x 29.5 cm. Limited edition, no reprint. Part of The Aficionados collectable magazine series. ISSN 2752-6534.