Category: Selections

  • The Painted Salon – A Room of Water, Fresco and Reverie

    The Painted Salon – A Room of Water, Fresco and Reverie

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    WHERE DECORATIVE ART, QUIET LIGHT AND THE THEATRE OF STILLNESS MEET. Some interiors do not merely shelter life; they elevate it. The Bathroom of Diana at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj with its frescoed walls, softened light and tranquil basin of water, feels less like a room than a composed state of mind. Everything here invites stillness:…

  • Villa Cetinale — The Most Beautiful Villa in Tuscany

    Villa Cetinale — The Most Beautiful Villa in Tuscany

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    WHERE ROMAN BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE, SACRED LANDSCAPE AND TUSCAN GARDENS MEET. West of Siena, where the cultivated hills give way to the wooded Montagnola Senese, Villa Cetinale appears with the quiet authority of a place perfectly aligned with its landscape. Cypresses frame a long green axis; olive groves soften the slopes; and the villa’s weathered facades…