WILDEST DREAMS

We’re craving a getaway to this Costa Rican cluster of jungle retreats

- ADAM STECH

Following the sale of Eyelevel, the successful Prague-based retail branding and production company he co-founded in 2002, Filip Zák and his wife Petra quit city life and headed to the hills of Costa Rica. On a remote plot overlooking Playa Hermosa, on the country’s south-western coast, framed by six acres of emerald jungle, they commissioned a family home, a five-bedroom concrete house designed by Prague studio Refuel Works. They then began slowly transforming their patch into a resort, which now encompasses the original house, Art Villa; a five-bedroom villa, Atelier, just down the hill; and Coco, a collection of four one-bedroom pods.