Paolo and Maria Catteneo’s house in Pescia Fiorentina, Italy, once played host to Puccini, among a crowd of other luminaries who loved to hunt. Since the Catteneos acquired the atypical Tuscan villa in the 1970s, in glorious tradition, they’ve given chase to a style that celebrates history and the great outdoors| The World Of Interiors
Le Jardin Plume, a heathery, feathery garden in France created by self-taught gardeners Patrick and Sylvie Quibel, is best seen in winter, when cobwebs and dew draw a golden filigree between the tops of grasses, bare trees and the stripped structure of rose bushes| The World Of Interiors
It wasn’t enough for an apple or pear tree merely to yield crops in Louis XIV’s vegetable garden at Versailles. How it looked was just as important, with branches carefully coaxed into perfect concentric circles or something akin to a candelabra. Kudos then to Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, the head horticulturist at the Potager du Roi in the 17th century. A dab hand at pruning, he knew how to sate the Sun King’s appetite for aesthetic order, as well as for out-of-season strawberries, s...| The World Of Interiors