The Italian House On Park In Westfield
Facing the residing room’s 16th-century fireplace are a pair of armchairs wearing arras tapestry; a 17th-century gilt-wood chandelier hangs above, and an vintage Oushak covers the ground. In the library of Count Raniero Gnoli’s apartment close to Rome, scalloped strips of hand-decorated leather shield books from dust. He designed the glass-and-iron bell-jar lantern and had it handmade in India; a late-18th-century Italian armchair is pulled up to the 19th-century walnut table. “Our goal was to revive the property to its unique splendor,” Susie Ropolo says of a run-down country estate in Moncalieri that she and her husband, Gianni, revived.
Scapillati says that most of the buildings for sale are in first rate shape, though they have unhinged doorways, peeling paint and are partly l...