Located in Trancoso, Brazil, Casa Cajueira is a hilltop retreat overlooking rainforest and ocean designed in 2019 by Wilbert Das.

Casa Cajueira – Description
“A hilltop retreat overlooking rainforest and ocean conceived as a mid-century home as built by native craftsmen with local materials and love.”
Casa Cajueiro is designed, decorated, and landscaped by the Dutch designer Wilbert Das, creator of Uxua, a ten-year-old sustainability-focused Brazilian hotel and spa, artisanal decor, fashion and accessory brand.
The brief casa description below is quoted from T-Magazine instagram feed, September 26, 2019:
“When a Belgian media magnate approached the fashion executive turned hotelier Wilbert Das (@wilbeedee) in 2015 to create Casa Cajueiro, a six-bedroom vacation home replacing an older home near the town?s historic center facing the jungle and named for the cashew tree growing in the middle of its six-acre plot, she gave the designer creative carte blanche. After his first site visit, Das drew blueprints for a 12,000-square-foot home based on a disjointed floor plan that would preserve 14 of the property?s mature mango, star fruit, cinnamon, jackfruit and almescar trees. Five white stucco suites and one of reclaimed wood, each a hermetic world of its own, branch out from a shared block of common spaces that torques around the central tree, offering expansive views to the ocean. At Casa Cajueiro, Das decided to explo...