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TUSCAN RETREAT

7th November 2013

Details perfectly summed up the inspiration behind the Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni’s Tuscan home when describing it as such: ‘Ask a child to draw a house and you can expect a rectangle dotted with windows, doors, and a chimney stack with gray Crayola smoke circling out of it. That rudimentary design was where Piero Lissoni, co-founder of the Italian firm Lissoni Associati, began when conceiving his private Tuscan retreat. Spread across two floors, the simple concrete structure looms on a green hilltop like a massive Monopoly piece finished with a sloping roof and a central chimney.’ Continue Reading…