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House of Wonders is a unique and unusual Company.

It was founded in 1994 by a group of friends with a love of travel and a passion for beautiful architecture. The idea was to restore historic buildings in exotic destinations and use the houses for holiday rentals.

The business has now grown into a fully licenced travel Company and has become the leading specialist in holiday rental houses of historic or architectural interest in exotic locations around the world.
The Company owns and manages houses but also offers other interesting properties to those in search of something special.

House of Wonders has its own representatives in several locations, in others it relies on the local house owner or their representative to receive the guests.

House of Wonders never reccomends a property that has not been visited by a member of the Company.

OUR TEAM:

Mr. Nigel Brown 

Nigel V. Brown
Chairman

He is supposed to be the business brain behind the Company.
Born in England, Nigel, has lived all over the world and is the only person we know who can draw a map of Africa on the back of an envelope with every border, country and capital in its right place.
Nigel is English and speaks French, German and Italian.


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Francoise Pilois-Brown
Managing Director

Born and raised in France, she has been living in Bologna (on and off) for just over 15 years. Since receiving a degree in Hotel Management, Tourism and foreign languages, she has travelled and worked around the world, mostly in the travel business.
Her passion is for primates and she is the volunteer representative for Southern Europe of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Don't ask for Francoise...everybody knows her as "Pilou".
Pilou is French and speaks English and Italian.


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Samantha Segal Veyne
Travel Consultant (Californian, based in Aix en Provence).

Samantha came to House of Wonders via a career in the film business.  After traveling the world on film shoots she realized she loved the travel more than the filming!  Born in Los Angeles, after 12 years in Paris she now makes her home in Aix en Provence with her French husband and two children.



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Rebecca Reyes Rock

She is our Spanish perfectionist ! She is currently translating all the bits missing in Spanish on the website and is dreaming about visiting those beautiful places around the world. Rebecca is the daughter of the owner of Villa Erca, Amalfi Coast (on our site), and is in Bologna to finish her studies at the University.
She joined the team last September 2002.
Rebecca is Italian and speaks Spanish with good English.


Our European travel operators licence and guarantee
RCS Aix-en-Provence 510 808 330 00011 - APE 7911Z - TVA FR 87 510 808 330
RC professionnelle c/o HISCOX – 19 Rue Louis le Grand – 75002 Paris