#mongiardino

[vintagehomecollection]

Gazebo by Mongiardino echoes cupola of St. Peter’s. Terra-cotta acorns, vases by Tobie Loup de Viane, who transformed terrace planting. Gate from an old convent.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

[fashionbooksmilano]

Casa Versace : Living with Art

testo di Cesare Cunaccia

Leonardo International, Milano 2008, 168 pagine, rilegato, english text

euro 80,00*

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"Vivere con arte" è il nuovo titolo di Versace. Presenta, con un testo di Cesare Cunaccia, le famose case di Gianni Versace con i bellissimi arredi, le raccolte di quadri e di antichità: la filosofia di vita di Versace nella sua continua ricerca del bello e dell'arte. Via Gesù di Milano, Villa Fontanelle di Como, Casa Casuarina di Miami e per la prima volta pubblicata, Fifth East 64 St. di New York, ampiamente illustrate da grandissimi fotografi tra cui Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon e Bruce Weber.

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[cristopherworthland]

Renzo Mongiardino, the maestro of atmosphere, indulged a "fantasy of Italian classicism" in the Rome apartment of Elsa Peretti, employing a "patchwork of antiquity" referencing Rome's rich, golden light, its history and its art ... as photographed by @obertogili for House & Garden, 1986. #elsaperetti #renzomongiardino #mongiardino #palazzo #roman #classicism #antiquity #atmosphere #ambiance #goldenlight #chiascuro

[cworthland]

The entrance of Renzo Mongiardino’s Milan apartment. From Roomscapes.

[vintagehomecollection]

In dining room, Empire chairs, two Mongiardino tables of various marbles, petrified wood. Viennese painted-bronze dog on steps. On tables, scroll by Tsuruugawa T’anyu, Edo period; Peretti plate, and vase.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

[vintagehomecollection]

Guest room is furnished with a suite from Mongiardino’s parents’ Genoa palazzo. Walls and bed covered in a Rubelli fabric. Boldini-style portrait of Mongiardino’s mother is by Maggi, a Turin painter.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

[vintagehomecollection]

In front hall, obelisk designed by Mongiardino in front of 17th-century painting from the palazzo where he grew up.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

[vintagehomecollection]

A corner of the salon with an Edwardian leather armchair, two Gothic chairs (one authentic, one a copy by Mongiardino) flank one of a set of painted doors, circa 1800, from a house in Brescia.

House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987