By George Upton
For a grand London townhouse
This six-bedroom Grade II-listed townhouse in south-west London is notable for its 42ft-long first-floor drawing room. The excessive frescoed ceiling, which was painted in 1865 by an Italian artist, is framed by a golden plasterwork cornice. Victorian-era particulars, such because the scagliola columns, ornate mirrors and carved marble fireplaces, have been retained whereas the parquet flooring was put in as a part of a current renovation of the property. The drawing room is lit with pure gentle from each ends, with a view over Clapham Frequent from a veranda on the entrance of the home, accessed through French doorways, and sash home windows on the rear that look out over landscaped gardens. The property is available on the market for £7.9mn.
For a household dwelling in a Mediterranean village
This 140-year-old five-bedroom townhouse in Lija, a small village in central Malta, has been rigorously maintained by three generations of the identical household. Interval particulars have been preserved, akin to the unique wood-burning fireplaces and cornicing, and the trompe l’óeil ceiling fresco above the big stone staircase was lately restored. Outdoors the property, which is available on the market for €3.5mn, there’s a walled backyard with a koi fish pond, and views throughout the island from the roof.
For a grand palazzo
Designed by Renaissance-era architect Andrea da Valle, the 10-bedroom Villa Roberti close to Padua, in northern Italy, options frescoes by a few of the main painters of the interval. The big principal corridor (additionally principal picture, above) has home windows on both finish that illuminate work by Paolo Veronese, Giambattista Zelotti and Antonio Fasolo, in addition to the 18th-century stuccowork and unique painted ceiling beams. The property, which is available on the market for €4.3mn, was constructed on the ruins of a 14th-century fortress. It features a surviving, and liveable, medieval tower, a Fifteenth-century barchessa (a porticoed farm constructing) and 5 acres of grounds together with a gardener’s home, English flower backyard and forest.
For a view of the ocean
The historic Portuguese village of Sintra grew to become a preferred summer season resort for each artists and aristocrats within the nineteenth century and is taken into account the primary centre of European Romantic structure. This 11-bedroom manor home, which is available on the market for €6.5mn, is a part of a property commissioned in Sintra in 1830 by the Marquis of Saldanha. Supposed for the Marquis’s mom, the home was designed by a celebrated Italian architect, and was adorned with frescoes by Italian artists, incomes it the identify Casa Italiana. The property’s elevated place on a cliffside terrace means there are expansive views from all three flooring throughout the hilly panorama — together with the close by Sintra Nationwide Palace, the summer season residence of the monarchs of Portugal throughout the nineteenth century — to the ocean past.
For a typical Barcelona house
The Eixample district in central Barcelona is thought for its grid system and modernist structure. This 10-bedroom flat occupies all the flooring of an early Nineteen Thirties house constructing that’s typical of the realm. On the market at €1.79mn, the property has unique wood doorways, Nolla mosaic flooring and leaded home windows. The ceilings, that are greater than 4 metres excessive, function well-maintained coffered mouldings and frescoes.
Images: Savills; Alex Zaetta Photograph/Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property
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