About
A private design villa in Todos Santos, in four parts.
What it is, how it is built, where it sits, and how it runs day to day.
01The idea
Private houses, not a hotel.
Nereidas is a small hospitality idea rooted in Baja California Sur: distinct houses by serious architects, each run with the attention of a five-star hotel and the privacy of a home. No lobby, no corridor, no neighbors. Take the whole house or a single suite; the staff take care of the rest.
Nereidas has drawn notice from The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Dwell and Divisare, as well as designboom, Hospitality Design and ArchDaily.
02The making
A house broken into pieces, so the desert stays whole.
Raquel Font of Studio Font drew the villa not as one building but as pieces set loose in the landscape: three bungalow suites and an open living pavilion scattered among the cardón, so no room ever turns its back on the desert.
Everything is pigmented concrete: structure and finish in a single material, the color in the walls rather than on them, shifting with the light through the day. Interiors are the work of Niños Héroes: furniture by Oscar Hagerman and Fabien Cappelo, vintage Don Shoemaker pieces, shelves of books on Mexican art and folk traditions.
03The land
Desert that runs unbroken to the Pacific.
The house sits near Agua Blanca, ten minutes north of Todos Santos, in cardón forest that has looked this way for millennia. It runs almost entirely on the sun: solar panels for electricity, the sun again for hot water, and water reused rather than spent. The endemic plants lifted during construction were replanted where they stood.
04The care
Quiet care.
The house is prepared before you arrive. A caretaker is on hand around the clock, and a concierge arranges pangas, horses, chefs, and tables in town. Daily housekeeping, turn-down service and extra visits can be arranged with the house.
The rest is better in person.