| Rococo interiors and
the decorative arts are some of the liveliest and most imaginative architecture
given by Italy around 16th and 17th century. Italian aristocracy built
castles, palaces and villa from Sicily to Venice and commissioned artists
and architects to create Italian residences of unsurpassed beauty and lifestyle.
The main reason of rococo style was decoration and leisure of the everyday
life.
Italian rococo style villa welcomed
numerous windows so that more light could fill the interior space and be
more graceful and ethereal as added drama. Windows, wall panels, mirrors,
and doors went from floor to ceiling to accentuate vertical space.
Frescoed ceilings, window treatment, parquets or tiled floors, stuccoed
walls, and antique furniture were often featured in sitting room
The interiors of Italian villas were
set apart by elegant parlors, dainty sitting rooms, graceful bedrooms and
guest rooms, drawing rooms, and libraries. These rooms were filled with
paintings and furniture all in the style of rococo. Italian furniture and
decorative designers arranged motifs such as arabesque, shells, ribbons,
swags, leaves, flowers, bamboo, cupids, cherubs, fairies, and angels into
decorative frames, panels, and borders.
Reserved and protected by an enclosure
stone wall, Lucca's villa style raised the noble floor from the country
floor, with the double flight stairway in the entrance. Rooms are symmetrically
distributed around the central salon as a lifestyle of easy elegance of
those days. Who's arriving from the town is embraced and conquered by the
gentle colours and the sharp fragrances of the cypresses, lime-trees, oaks,
olives, magnolias, laurels, aromatic herbs and roses in an Italian villa
garden.
Italian villa's premium rooms were often decorated with beautiful Tuscan
silk curtains, marble fireplace, fine antiques and grand piano. Walls are
decorated with trompe l’oeil and frescoes.
Rococo was an art of exquisite intrigue
and playfulness. Rococo was inspired by mythological figures, angels, and
cherubs in traditional poses abound, real and fanciful beasts and other
comical and whimsical creatures from nature reflected the optimism, sensuality,
superstitions and fears of man during the Italian Renaissance.
Beautiful images include monumental
sculpture and carvings, opulent furniture, lavish decor and accents, elaborate
plasterwork of decorative shapes and patterns, multitudes of celestial
beings frolicking amongst clouds and rays of sunshine immortalized in magnificent
and paintings. Renaissance villas are found various Italian regions: peaceful
country retreats in Tuscany and Veneto, impressive urban residences in
Rome and Venice, grand villas in Trieste and Sicily.
Many historic Italian villas or castles were restored with antique furniture
updated with e.g. electronics, modern kitchen, swimming pool, tennis court,
or gym |