A Good Evening
25 Friday Mar 2011
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Designer Laura Biagiotti’s gold-threaded white Italian silk draped bedroom
at the Castello di Marco Simone, built between the 11th and 15th centuries
on the former site of a Roman villa…
French c. 1830 silk swagged and baldacchino topped bed…
Frescoes from the 15th and 16th centuries on the second floor…
some dating from Roman times and collected from other villas…
Discovered under nine coats of paint and restored by five
preservation artists over a year and a half…
Early 16th century allegorical figure of summer…
Bas relief on bathroom wall of Mariuccia Mandelli and Aldo Pinto
of the Italian fashion house, Krizia…
Elaborate boxwood parterres at the entrance to Villa Emo
Privately owned by the Emo family until 2004, it has been conserved
as part of the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
A stone table set in gravel courtyard at Villa Elmo…
Lovely walls…
A statue at the end of a long line of poplar trees…
Italian Style
Catherine Sabino & Angelo Tomdini
Photography Guy Bouchet
Published 1985