Francesca Amfitheatrof’s 21st-century cave
Louis Vuitton’s creative director has created a Mediterranean holiday home that takes her (way) back to her roots
Francesca Amfitheatrof, the always impeccably groomed artistic director of jewellery and watches at Louis Vuitton, is not the first person one would expect to find barefoot in a cave – and smiling about it. But here we are, on a breezy pink-and-gold September afternoon, in the sparsely populated south-western end of the minuscule island of Ventotene (2.8km by 880m).