Ca’ d’Oro — Gothic Palazzo to Art Museum
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Built on the Grand Canal for merchant Marino Contarini, the Gothic palazzo has survived alteration, restoration and reinvention to become the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti. On the Grand Canal, where Venice has never been particularly shy about architectural display, Ca’ d’Oro still manages to stand apart. Built between 1421 and 1440 for the merchant Marino Contarini, the palace was conceived as an explicit demonstration of wealth, craftsmanship and taste
Inside the Puglian Palazzo Where 19th-Century Grandeur Meets Contemporary Art
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At Palazzo Daniele, a former aristocratic residence in Salento has been stripped back with radical restraint, revealing frescoed ceilings, mosaic floors and a new life shaped by artists, collectors and slow Italian hospitality
Castello Ducale di Agliè, the Faded Savoy Residence Where History Still Clings to the Walls
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North of Turin, a 300-room castle preserves seven centuries of noble life through frescoed rooms, worn stone floors, painted doors, romantic gardens, and the quiet drama of interiors left almost exactly where time placed them
When the Room Becomes Part of the Collection
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Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Thomas Houseago, Christopher Wool, Cy Twombly, Kazuo Shiraga and Mark Manders, together with Hellenistic and Roman antiquities, are contextually visualised by interior and furniture designer Brent Lee within interiors where chronology gives way to scale, material and spatial tension
Aman Venice Slows the Grand Canal to the Pace of a Private Palazzo
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Within the 16th-century Palazzo Papadopoli, the hotel turns frescoed rooms, private gardens and water-level arrival into one of Venice’s most composed acts of hospitality
A View Across Florence, Seven Centuries in the Making
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High above the Oltrarno, a medieval tower and Renaissance villa preserve the atmosphere of a private Florentine residence among orchards, olive groves and cypress-lined gardens
Ai Barbacani Brings Venetian Tradition to One of the City's Most Romantic Corners
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Set within a historic Venice address, the restaurant pairs the flavours of the lagoon with an intimate atmosphere shaped by old walls, narrow canals and the rituals of the city
Café Lapérouse Charts a Maritime Course Through the Hôtel de la Marine
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Cordélia de Castellane transforms the Parisian landmark into an imagined voyage of ocean blues, tropical florals and Art Deco detail
Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay Begins a New Chapter Outside Paris
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Forty-five minutes from the capital, the restored Cistercian abbey has been transformed by Paris Society into an expansive country-house hotel shaped by monastic history, Rothschild ambition and the surrounding forest
Villa Monastero Carries Nine Centuries of Lake Como History
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On the eastern shore of Lake Como, a former Cistercian nunnery has become a house museum, cultural venue and botanical garden shaped by centuries of ownership, taste and landscape
Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi — the Artist’s World Above Varese
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At the Sacro Monte di Varese, the Milanese artist’s former home and atelier gathers art, archaeology, architecture, and the monumental plaster model for Milan Cathedral’s central door
Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation through the lens of an Art Advisor
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An art advisor’s iPhone photos trace the Vincenzo De Cotiis Foundation within Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice
Château de Gourdon Has Watched Over the Riviera for a Thousand Years
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Suspended 758 metres above the Loup Valley, this ancient Provençal fortress finds its most extraordinary architecture at the meeting point of stone and sky
Dries Van Noten Makes Beauty an Act of Protest in Venice
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The Belgian designer’s new foundation opens at Palazzo Pisani Moretta with an exhibition devoted to craftsmanship, contradiction and the difficult pursuit of beauty
An Egyptian Relief Preserves a Husband and Wife Across 3,500 Years
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Held by London dealer ArtAncient, the painted limestone fragment from Thebes turns a gesture of affection into one of the most intimate surviving images of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty
At Castello di Montecalvello, Pierre Augustin Rose Finds a Softer Language of Stone and Velvet
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Inside an 11th-century castle once restored by Balthus, the French design house adapts its contemporary forms to the weight, texture and silence of the Italian countryside
Galerie Chenel Places Roman Sculpture in a Contemporary Parisian Frame
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From its Quai Voltaire gallery opposite the Louvre, the family-run specialist has built an international reputation around archaeological objects, provenance and the enduring presence of antiquity
Apologia Finds Beauty in the Memory of Japanese Object
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From Chiba, the antique dealer presents weathered timber, vernacular furniture and sculptural objects through a philosophy that places age, memory and material presence above chronology
Looking Back at Intuition, Axel Vervoordt’s Defining Palazzo Fortuny Exhibition
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Curated with Daniela Ferretti for the 2017 Venice Biennale, the exhibition now reads as one of Vervoordt’s clearest statements on art, perception and the knowledge that arrives before language
Vincenzo De Cotiis Brings a New Material Language to a Longhena Palazzo
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At Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, malachite, silvered metal and recycled fibreglass enter a centuries-old world of Murano glass, silk brocade and shifting Grand Canal light
A Florentine Illusion in Holmby Hills
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Antiques dealer Richard Shapiro transformed a 1926 Los Angeles manor into an imagined Italian villa shaped by aged surfaces, collected histories and the exacting proportions of Palladio
Limestone Quarry Becomes a Private Pool in the Berkshires
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Set within 60 acres of wooded Massachusetts landscape, this Sheffield estate turns an industrial remnant into a secluded natural swimming retreat
Casa degli Atellani, Where Milan’s Renaissance and Modernism Meet
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After more than a century as the home and creative centre of Piero Portaluppi’s descendants, the 15th-century palace and Leonardo da Vinci’s reconstructed vineyard have entered an uncertain new chapter
Vincenzo De Cotiis Reframes Venetian Light at Palazzo Salviati
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Within a 19th-century palazzo built for one of Venice’s great glassmaking families, the designer uses travertine, bronze and mirrored surfaces to create a contemporary home shaped by the movement of light