Fresh limes ripe for the picking, family meals in the garden and laconic afternoons on the veranda feature in photographer Retts Wood’s series shot across hotelier Carlos Couturier’s verdant country home and citrus farm empire in San Rafael, Mexico. Situated on the humid tropical coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Couturier’s 15 farms spread across the former French colonial state of Veracruz harvest up to 60,000 tons of citrus per year which are distributed to leading restaurants, hotels and supermarket chains across the world. Couturier’s French immigrant grandfather settled in the 1890s to farm vanilla, switching to citrus when demand dropped due to the advent of artificial flavoring. Co-founding Grupo Habita with Moisés Micha, Couturier has launched twelve luxury design hotels including Endémico in Baja California and New York’s Chelsea boutique Hôtel Americano featuring Kengo Kuma-style, almost-on-the-ground platform beds, black vinyl Zanotta bean bag chairs, and iPads loaded with music and the hotel’s own city guide. “By traveling constantly through the citrus business I became an expert in hotels,” explains the entrepreneur, who was spending up to 200 days a year traveling. “I hated the big chain hotels, I always wanted to find small hotels with character and personality.” Currently developing new fruit varieties at the farms, expanding into avocado production and building a residence for emerging artists specializing in land art, here Couturier reveals his favorite citrus concoction and the essential summer cocktail.