A Hilltop Villa in Italy With a Strong Foundation
A Hilltop Villa in Italy With a Strong Foundation
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CAMAIORE, Italy - When Marco Pasanella was a boy, he began to spend summers in Tuscany, where his father, Giovanni Pasanella, an architect and former professor of architecture and urban design at Yale and Columbia, had moved in the 1970s. Mr. Pasanella inherited Villa Cannizzaro, as it was called, and with it memories floating from the remnants of past lives. Giovanni "Encouraged" the bamboo, and it became one of his preferred painting subjects, Mr. Pasanella said. Mr. Pasanella is a designer of everything from housewares to hotels, and Ms. Robertson is an interior designer and stylist, by way of a long stint working for Martha Stewart. "The kitchen person thought we were bananas; they said, 'How come you don't want to have a million cabinets?'", Mr. Pasanella said, adding that the kitchen was great as is. "That's due to my wife who spent 13 years working for Martha Stewart," Mr. Pasanella said with a laugh. Once Luca goes off to college, Mr. Pasanella expects that he and his wife will spend more time here, though they will keep a foot in New York, because they love it, and they have their wine shop.