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"Musician Ned Lambton Restores His Magnificent Tuscan Villa\nAfter inheriting a 17th-century Tuscan estate with spectacular gardens, the English musician set about updating the Baroque masterpiece as a luxuriously laid-back retreat for family and friends\nThe garden fa\u00E7ade of Villa Cetinale, the 17th-century Tuscan residence of Ned and Marina Lambton, the Earl and Countess of Durham. Designed by Carlo Fontana for a nephew of Pope Alexander VII, the house was restored by architect Bolko von Schweinichen and interior designer Camilla Guinness. For details see May Sources.\nThe Countess of Durham and her daughter, Lady Stella Lambton.\nAlong one wall, grisaille landscapes hang above gilded consoles; the jute rug is by IKEA.\nThe arms of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, the villa's original owner, are painted on the drawing room ceiling.\nThe room's curtains are of a Claremont silk, while the pelmets are made of antique fabrics.\nThe new kitchen is illuminated by an antique tin chandelier and includes a backsplash of reclaimed Sicilian tiles.\nEighteenth-century murals give the formal dining room the air of a garden pavilion.\nChairs slipcovered in white linen encircle a banquet table in the ground-floor dining hall; the armchairs at right are upholstered in a Claremont damask, and the table lamp between them is an altar taper converted by Camilla Guinness.\nA table is set in the shade of linden trees.\nThe Library Bedroom is lined with leather-bound volumes.\nA guest bed is curtained with a Chelsea Textiles embroidered fabric, while the armchair in the corner is upholstered in a de Le Cuona linen.\nThe Yellow Bedroom features an antique baldachin; the jute floor covering is by IKEA.\nA close-up of the bed.\nAn elaborate canopy adds decorative drama to the Red Bedroom.\nOaks are trained over a metal framework.\nClipped boxwood hedges flank a gravel path.\nConical boxwoods and towering cypresses define a grass walkway.\nStone walls surround the swimming pool.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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