Hesselbrand transforms stables into extra rooms at Tuscany’s Villa Lena

A former horse stables on the grounds of Tuscan artwork retreat Villa Lena has been renovated by structure studio Hesselbrand to accommodate a sequence of rustic visitor suites.

Villa Lena is located within the coronary heart of Tuscany on a sprawling, 500-hectare wooded property dotted with vineyards and olive groves.

In the course of the 19th and early 20th-century it was the house of an aristocratic Italian household, however in 2013 it re-opened as a resort and non-profit artwork basis that provides an artist-in-residence scheme.

The resort’s visitor suites and facilities – which embrace a farm-to-table restaurant and film-screening room – are housed throughout the location’s disused stables, outbuildings and searching lodges.

One of many outdated stables, named Fattoria, has lately been remodeled by London and Oslo-based studio Hesselbrand to host an additional 13 visitor rooms that mirror “the playful assembly of the standard and up to date”.

“Fattoria has served so many assorted makes use of all through the years, so we’re excited to make use of our design to lastly open up the location, create new areas and permit everybody to expertise this wealthy and characterful constructing,” defined Magnus Casselbrant and Jesper Henriksson of Hesselbrand, two of the three co-founders of the studio.

“A rigorously curated palette of natural supplies and types have been mixed in a approach which reinforces and amplifies this distinctive juxtaposition between outdated and new in each the visitor rooms and surrounding social areas.”

The steady’s entrance has been expanded to kind a grandiose hallway, which nonetheless options the unique vaulted ceiling and cobbled stone flooring.

A double staircase leads as much as the white-painted bed room suites, the place surfaces are panelled with grooved timber.

Within the bogs, pale gray and wealthy brown Carrara marble tiles have been organized in a sq. sample throughout the partitions, flooring and bathe cubicle. The normal materials palette right here is offset with stainless-steel faucet taps and vainness items.

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Among the standalone bathtubs have been positioned beneath shuttered home windows in order that friends can overlook the encircling verdant panorama.

Decor within the rooms is saved easy with vintage ottomans and a collection of ceramic ornaments. Touches of heat are offered by ochre-yellow curtains, pink scatter cushions or giant woven rugs.

The intervention additionally noticed Hesselbrand kind a small artwork library throughout the constructing, which shows a rotation of works by residents previous and current, and convert an adjoining farmhouse right into a honeymoon hideaway for .

An out of doors yoga studio and open-air pavilion the place friends can have interaction in “quiet contemplation” has moreover been created by the studio.

This yr the Monteverdi Resort additionally opened in Tuscany, which occupies a handful of crumbling buildings within the hamlet of Val d’Orcia.

In addition to a sequence of rooms decked out with handmade furnishings by native artisans, it boasts a Roman-inspired underground pool that appears via to a close-by valley.

Pictures is by Henrik Lundell.