Tuscan Decor and More: 12 Inspiring Italian Spaces
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A manicured lawn and large shade trees introduce Giorgio Armani's two-story farmhouse, located a block from the sea on the Versilia coast of Italy. More than 20 years ago Armani thoroughly renovated the interiors but chose not to alter the rustic exterior. ( December 2004 )
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A 17th-century northern Italian painting is featured in the intimate sitting room, which, like the master bedroom, was designed by Adrian Magistretti with Cesare Rovatti. ( May 2003 )
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On the first floor of the Palazzo Sasso hotel in Ravello, the portraits of Neapolitan nobility reign over the antique-filled library. ( July 2002 )
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London-based landscape architect Arabella Lennox-Boyd created new gardens and refurbished much of the interior of Palazzo Parisi, her childhood home and family retreat in Italy. Her husband, Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd, designed the armillary sphere in the drawing room. ( September 2005 )
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At Turin Gallery, midcentury art glass and furniture are displayed in the upstairs gallery. A Salvador Dalí sculpture is at center. Three 1970 Venini vases are on a Jacques Leleu buffet. ( February 2006 )
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The dining room of the Palazzo Pucci. The late-18th-century fresco, by Luigi Ademollo, depicts Aenes leaving Troy. Marchesa Pucci and her husband added the Venetian chairs. The crystal glassware was made for the family in the 18th century. ( January 2007 )
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Seven suites at the Lungarno in Florence have terraces where guests can dine while enjoying the view of the Ponte Vecchio. Designer Michele Bnan says the hotel is "full of creature comforts." ( April 2004 )
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At the Castello di Masino in Turin, eighteenth-century trompe l'oeil embellishes the tower's walls and ceiling. ( October 2004 )
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Countess Nencia Bolza's monochromatic landscapes on the walls of the master bedroom "resemble an old-master drawing," says designer Countess Angelika Bolza. An 18th-century Italian chandelier hangs from one of the poplar beams. ( October 2002 )
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The master bedroom of a 15th-century Tuscan farmhouse, carefully restored by architect Paola Mariotti and designer Mark Long Fletcher with the help of builder Nicholas Risley. ( February 2007 )
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Cotton velveteen capes by Emilio Pucci, who died in 1992, from the 1960s and 70s are a few of the treasures in a new archive devoted to his work at the Palazzo Pucci in Florence. ( December 2005 )
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"It's very private," hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati says of Palazzo Mocenigo, a sister property to the Bauer Hotel overlooking Venice's Grand Canal. Built in the Gothic style by the Mocenigo family in 1570, the structure was given a Baroque façade in the 17th century. ( December 2005 )