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Some houses are built. Others are born. Lost Villa in Bali belongs to the latter category – it is the embodiment of a dream that began with a desire to escape the daily grind and ended with a six-bedroom residence hidden in the heart of old-growth jungle.
Behind the project is Christian LeBlanc, a traveller and blogger who once worked as an accountant. “I felt a lack of inspiration and creativity. I needed an escape,” he recalls. He picked up a camera, started travelling and committed to making a video every day. A few years later, he settled in Bali – and decided to build a home there.
He found the plot during the pandemic, riding around on his motorbike asking locals if they had land for sale. “After a few days, I found it – this wild jungle plot, where some trees are over a hundred years old.”
The interior was created in collaboration with Romania-based Singleart Design & Architecture. Blue and green permeate the entire home – from the infinity pool and volcanic rock koi pond to a rooftop garden laden with bougainvillea. A neighbouring craftsman hand-carved doors, beams and shelving from wood sourced from decommissioned boats and old bridges.
For the bathrooms, LeBlanc chose Axor. “When I first saw their collections at Salone del Mobile in Milan, I thought – this is Lost Villa. The designs felt like they grew out of the earth,” he explains.
Each bathroom has its own palette and story. A monolithic stone soaking tub with an Axor Starck Organic thermostat. Emerald marble with an Axor Starck V faucet in Brushed Bronze. Italian marble with the Axor MyEdition collection and a custom black walnut plate.
“Escape the Ordinary? That’s my whole story,” says LeBlanc. “Leaving a nine-to-five, chasing a dream no one really believed in at the time.” Lost Villa is proof that sometimes it pays to trust your instincts – and let a house grow alongside the jungle around it.
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