A modernist villa on the Amalfi Coast with Grotto Pool

 Amalfi Coast, Italy

Architect: Gae Aulenti

Photography © Lionard Luxury Real Estate

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This unique villa in the modernist style on the Amalfi Coast was designed in 1972 by the legendary Gae Aulenti, the visionary behind Paris’s Musée d’Orsay and Venice’s Palazzo Grassi.

La Grotta Rosa offers : a front-row seat to the raw beauty of the Amalfi Coast, combined with the architectural pedigree of a true design icon — and the rare luxury of private sea access on one of Italy’s most coveted coastlines.

Spread across three cascading levels, the villa exemplifies Aulenti’s modernist architecture: clean structural lines balanced by vaulted ceilings, Moorish arches, and hand-painted majolica tiles typical of the Amalfi Coast’s artisan tradition.

Villa La Grotta Rosa spans 5,400 sq ft with vaulted interiors, panoramic terraces, a pool that disappears into a natural grotto featuring a ‘secret’ wellness area with a lounge, hot tub, and sauna.

Expansive terraces extend living spaces outdoors, framing sweeping Mediterranean views and blurring the boundary between home and landscape.

Carved into the cliffs of Conca dei Marini —  a UNESCO World Heritage enclave between Amalfi and Positano