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"Tuscan Renaissance\nA Historic Castle in Italy Is Artfully Brought Into the Present\n\"It's rustic and grand,\" designer David Mlinaric says of Fighine, an 11th-century castle and village in Tuscany that he restored with his partner Hugh Henry.\nA dressing room. Black-and-white architectural prints hang above the Italian chest of drawers.\nIn the drawing room, the 19th-century ceiling decoration and the floor were restored. The designers added the zodiac panels in the roundels and covered the walls with brocatelle. A 17th-century painting is above the scagliola fireplace. The ebony cupboard is Flemish.\nPortuguese dishes and Irish and Venetian glassware are on the table in the dining room. An Italian Rococo console table is at rear.\n\"We created a modern kitchen in a 15th-century space,\" says Mlinaric. The island was custom-made in Florence.\nPlaster and bronze busts top a 17th-century bookcase in the library. The painted vellum maps hanging at left were purchased in London. The leather-topped Italian stools, which date to the 16th century, are near a 17th-century fruitwood table. The rug is antique.\n\"It is as it was before,\" Henry says of the master bedroom. A limewash was applied to the walls to replicate the existing color. The painted decoration dates to the 1800s. Above the chest of drawers is a 17th-century Italian oil. Bed-hanging fabric from Rubelli.\nMlinaric and Henry extended the 19th-century stripe down the walls of the study. The painting is flanked by a pair of French tapestries. On the Louis XVI-style mahogany desk are two tole oil lamps, which were electrified. The painted side chair is Italian.\nCypress and lemon trees, box hedges and roses abound in a Federico Fourquet-designed garden.\nThe team retained the 1867 press in the 11th-century olive-press room. The metal light fixture is from the 1930s. The antiqued terra-cotta tiles are new."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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