“Villa Altopiano” was built in the late 15th century as hunting lodge. After several transformations and expansion works, it gets its final setting at the beginning of the 19th century. A particular setting, a pleasant example of Bolognese manor house with porticoes and columns with Reinassance capitals, a tower with orthogonal base and a circular small tower set against it.
The preciousness of the adorned and the presence of medieval crenelations distinguish it from the other buildings, as well as the roundness of the environments, the height of the vaulted ceiling, the big door windows interfacing along the long corridors.
Various parts of the villa tell pieces of nobiliary and peasants’ stories, clear evocation transferred by the painted ceilings or by the friezes adorning the external frames or the columns. Centennial trees surround it, silent witnesses of the earnestness and of the truth of time.
My wife and I have been won over all of this, and we have been trying to faithfully reinterpret the witness of ancient arts and to bring them to the original values and colours. Then, the real challenge started in that very moment: make Visionnaire interact with them, let our furniture speak the same language of the places which host them,
creating a single entity, without forcing and overcome.