Homes built
to hold three generations
under one roof.
Grandparents spend summers with grandkids; playing backgammon, exchanging stories. Dinners are cooked over an open fire, enjoyed outside from the moment the sun sets until the birds stop singing.
Siblings return to the same mountains every winter. In time, their children learn to ski on the same slopes.
This is why Carel Collection exists.
About Carel Collection
Carel Collection is a selection of homes, each of which has been lived in by a family who has spent over twenty years finding, building, and renting second homes. Each house sits in a part of the world worth reaching: a beach, a mountain, a coastline. Built, so you can feel the land and the elements where you are—the wind, the sea, the cold on the way to the open fire.
Why the Carel Collection
Lived in first
The family behind Carel Collection has spent two decades finding and building second homes, and stayed in each one before offering it to anyone else.
Personal assistance
Reach out directly, and someone who knows the house takes it from there: arranging the stay, and anything you need once you're in it.
The same care, everywhere
These are homes that are styled, cared for, and lived in by the family behind them, the same way in every location.
01
PORTUGAL
Arrábida
14 hectares inside Arrábida Natural Park, 45 minutes from Lisbon. Off-grid, with wooden cabins already on the land and views over the valley and ridge.
02
BRAZIL
Rio de Janeiro
Once the home of Elis Regina, one of Brazil's most celebrated singers, and a defining voice of MPB and bossa nova. Perched on a clifftop over the ocean in Rio de Janeiro.
03
PORTUGAL
Santos
A city apartment in Lisbon’s lively creative neighborhood Santos, a few steps from breakfast cafes and the church courtyard, where the neighbourhood gathers over a glass in the evening sun.
04
BRAZIL
Taiba
A vida é um Carnaval, the Collection’s beachfront in Taíba, 90 minutes from Fortaleza. Built for kitesurfing groups and large families, sleeping up to 10 adults. Coconut water on the porch and winds that don’t quit.
05
FRANCE
Val d’Isère
Wooden interiors, steps from the slopes in Val d'Isère. Ideal for two families; enjoying skiing by day, the village by night.
