Ostuni

Ostuni (Brindisi), Apulia. 2021-2022 Nestled in the plain that leads from the town to the sea, the garden of Ostuni draws inspiration from the Apulian landscape, taking the limits of a context marked by lack of water and salinity and turning them into strengths of a design that feels uber-contemporary in its juxtaposition of austerity […]
Passignano sul Trasimeno

Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia), Umbria. 2001-2004 Originally conceived to accompany an hotel de charme overlooking Lake Trasimeno, the garden of Passignano draws from elements typical Italian formal garden but reworks them in a way more appropriate to English landscape gardens so as to open the view to the panorama. To the east, a water blade […]
Capalbio

Capalbio (Grosseto), Tuscany. 2018 A terrace opening up to the wild landscape of Maremma, the garden of Capalbio was conceived with the idea that everything that fell within the boundaries of its enclosure would serve to exalt what lies outside its perimeter. Mixed borders of subshrubs, perennial herbs, and grasses mark its edges whilst blending […]
Marciana Marina

Marciana Marina (Livorno), Tuscany. 2017 Designed to complement a summer villa, the garden of Isola d’Elba serves as a rustic and wild counterpoint to the architecture it accompanies, whose stacked cubes and blinding white colour evoke the typical Mediterranean village dropping sheer into the sea. Closer to the house, the garden appropriates the rationalist language […]
Bagno Vignoni

Bagno Vignoni (Siena), Tuscany. 1989-1990 Overlooking the famous Etrusco-Roman thermal bath, the garden of Bagno Vignoni is an homage to the landscape of Val d’Orcia, which, beyond its romantic, almost luxuriant appearance, hides its essence of “garden in motion”. In the early 1990s, the garden was but a barren plot of land, the result of […]
Zucca Uomo

Zucca Uomo, Travo (Piacenza), Emilia-Romagna. 2007-2009 In 2007, the garden of Zucca Uomo appeared like a “lunar” landscape, the result of a previous intervention which didn’t take into account the context. The design, which in all took up the better part of two hectares, was then aimed at regenerating this landscape and restoring it to […]
Villa Bellaria

Villa Bellaria, Rivergaro (Piacenza), Emilia-Romagna. 1993-2002 The garden of Villa Bellaria foregrounds the romantic spirit of the garden as it was designed by complementing the sinuous serpentines, picturesque vistas, and kitsch flourishes of the original with a collection of Mediterranean plants and elements typical of Italian formal gardens, revisited however in a manner that’s more […]
Villa Albera

Villa Albera, Salvirola (Cremona), Lombardy. 1992-1994 Accompanying a historic Renaissance villa near Crema, the garden of Villa Albera is structured around two areas. The first, more “architectural” and closer to the house, is characterised by its learned and playful eclecticism, in which winding paths and sinuous topiary hedges lead the way to a terraced roundabout […]
Carimate

Carimate (Como), Lombardy. 2013-2018 Brianza is a place long marked by botanical and horticultural experimentation, with its historical parks filled to the brim with plants from all over the world. At the same time, climate change has made it an area suitable for plants that would have been unthinkable only a few years back. The […]
Teca House

Teca House, Biella, Piedmont. 2018 Designed to accompany Federico del Rosso’s architecture—which from the ruin of an old agricultural depot created a sustainable and self-sufficient glass house inspired by Philip Johnson’s iconic original—the garden of Teca House at first glance appears simple but in fact hides important landscaping interventions and choices that marry aesthetics with […]