Italian Houses

Set inside a 19th-century palazzo, the French-Chinese food writer’s apartment blends old-world architecture with the warmth of a large, cosmopolitan family – never more so than during the festive season

Jane Sacchi recounts the experience of updating a twelfth-century tower in Italy, originally restored by her architect husband Bruno in the Seventies

The search for a second home in Italy led Keith Johnson and Glen Senk to this farmhouse in Tuscany, where they set about restoring its traditional Italian charm and using salvaged finds and locally sourced antiques to create interiors that feel authentic yet intensely personal

On opening their Chez Dede lifestyle store in the Italian capital, Daria Reina and Andrea Ferolla envisioned not just a business but a world that others could inhabit. Now, with the creation of their Superattico Monserrato flat above the shop, this dream has become a reality

A mother-and-daughter design duo has taken an unconventional approach to the conversion of a sixteenth-century convent in Tuscany, filling the rooms with objects and artworks of their own making.

The food writer and tableware designer usually spends Christmas in her apartment in a 17th-century palazzo in Venice, where we visited her for a special festive edition of Design Notes

Hoping that behind the cement render there was a 16th-century gem, the owners of this house in Umbria set to work restoring its architecture, before calling in Maria Speake of Retrouvius to transform the interiors with her use of salvaged materials and antiques

In an ancient Italian town perched on a rocky outcrop and accessible only by foot, Paolo Crepet and Cristiana Melis, the residents of an art-filled former palace, have created a guesthouse that is truly one of a kind

In a former monastery on a hilltop in southern Tuscany, the residence and studio of British sculptor Emily Young is the ideal setting for her stone carved heads and figures, each telling a story of their own.

Between them, Giovanni and Servane Giol run a prestigious Venetian music conservatory, have set up a theatre school and embarked on two conservation projects that showcase the skills of local artisans

On a hillside in Florence, the villa that the Caponi family has lived in for 50 years tells a story that spans three generations and contains beautiful antiques and artworks collected over a lifetime.

Tuscany has long been one of the most covetable areas to live in all of Italy. We've gathered five beautiful restoration projects from our archive that show just how spectacular a house here can be

After years of renting houses for family holidays, Shiro Muchiri decided to establish a more permanent base in Tuscany and, by combining two dilapidated dwellings on a sprawling estate, has created a harmonious home worthy of its spectacular setting

In an extract from Robyn Lea's new book 'A Room of Her Own', we explore Arniano, a charming Tuscan house belonging to Camilla Guinness and her daughters Amber and Claudia

Amid contemporary design, artwork and travel treasures, architecture firm 02A transformed a Roman apartment in an early 20th-century mansion into a museum-like city pied-à-terre

In this extract from Inside Milan, Nicolò Castellini Baldiserra discusses how the Milanese bring beauty to an otherwise functional, industrial city – and how he did the same to his apartment

It took the owners years to find this stone farmhouse in Tuscany and even longer to get permission for the renovation that they had in mind – but it was certainly worth the wait

This country house on the Piedmont hill has one of the best gardens ever designed by Russell Page.

When a plot of land in a Puglian village came up for sale, it offered an exciting opportunity for an Italian architect to create a contemporary courtyard enclave for his family – complete with a tower – as a bold but respectful nod to the region’s past