Palladian Days: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781400043378 (1400043379)
Publish date: June 21st 2005
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ e...