British architect Piers Taylor has been visiting Corfu since the early 1970s, and knew the island and its culture inside out when he eventually decided to build a holiday retreat for his family there, in a beautiful olive grove on a hillside. ‘I’ve been coming here all my life,’ he says. ‘The place is deep into my subconscious, so when I started to design this house I didn’t have to look around, it felt instinctive.’
