SEPTEMBER CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

The soul of neoclassical villas

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Classical Greek and Roman architecture continues to inspire Italian designers. In renovating a villa in Puglia featured by Ville & Casali in this issue, architect Pietro Capitaneo was inspired by the neoclassical houses of Karl Friederick Schinkel, a famous Prussian architect as well as a painter, who believed that a building should have a soul, should contain elements of poetry, and connect to the past by entering a dialogue with it. Thus the Apulian designer put together pergola paths, flowered areas, open spaces of greenery, a body of water, namely the swimming pool, which, as in the best tradition, have transformed the park into a 'garden of delights'. Classic elements can also be found in the furnishings of a villa in Saint Tropez renovated by the South African studio SAOTA or in an attic converted into a villa by architect Pietro Corcione, due to an adjacent terraced hill on the shores of Lake Lugano, or, finally, in the interiors of a Tuscan villa, designed by the Florentine