The ferry ride from Dakar to Gorée Island is one of the highlights of a visit to the ASAO guesthouse. “On the boat I feel like I am in heaven,” says Ondine Saglio, who has owned the house with her mother since 1989 and has operated it as a guesthouse since 2010. “You leave the crazy traffic noise of Dakar, you put one foot on the boat and you feel like you’re going back to paradise.” That paradise for Saglio is where she spent the first seven years of her life. Today, even though she lives in Paris, she says she still feels most at home on Gorée. Her passion for the place is one reason she and her mother, Valérie Schlumberger, bought the home, located on a side street just a block away from the island’s main beach. This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Six Buy Now Related Stories Interiors Issue 46 Bush Modernism Rebuilding the legacy of desert architect Alistair Knox. Interiors Issue 46 Rural Splendor A farmhouse turned studio bordering a rugged moor. Interiors Issue 46 California Cool A mid-century post-and-beam house that blends with the nature around it. Interiors Issue 46 Gothic Revival The eclectic ornamentation of Gaudí’s first commission. Interiors Issue 46 Faded Grandeur Peeling back the layers of a scenographer's palatial suite. Interiors Issue 46 Medieval Modern A designer's peaceful home in a Florentine palazzo.
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