![]() “To see them all positioned, finding their home here, has been incredible, in that it has been almost exactly as I imagined,” she says. Thomas Ruff and William Kentridge artworks, courtesy of Lia Rumma Gallery Milan/NaplesĮnselmi has long form with 20th-century Italian furniture, having acquired rare and unique pieces extensively both at auction and from private dealers. “Sala di Michelangelo Pistoletto, Vitalità del Negativo, Roma” by Ugo Mulas, courtesy of Lia Rumma Gallery Milan/Naples In the main salon, Thomas Ruff’s “jpeg tj01” C-print, 2007, hangs between two windows, with William Kentridge’s “Head (Man Looking Left)”, 2017, on the right © Lea Anouchinsky. In one room a 1939 Gio Ponti desk and 1946 shelving unit are juxtaposed with a 1970 print by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas and a 1950s-’60s Franco Albini cane chair © Lea Anouchinsky. Part of Palazzo Luce’s gardens © Lea Anouchinsky All of it in the context of an exceptional architectural restoration, in which are preserved antique maiolica tiles and fresco detailing, gilded and painted cornices and doors, and a walled garden with views over the city’s Roman amphitheatre. Works by, among others, William Kentridge, Marina Abramović, Vanessa Beecroft and Thomas Ruff dialogue with site-specific installations, ceramics by the fashion designer-turned-artist Antonio Marras and bespoke furniture – including a bar that fills an entire room – created by Martino Gamper. ![]() The palazzo’s 1,500sq m are a showcase of Italian and international art and design – a collaboration between Enselmi and Lia Rumma, one of Italy’s few international-powerhouse art dealers, with galleries in Naples and Milan. It was the light, she says, that did it hence the palace’s rechristening when she acquired it shortly thereafter: Palazzo Luce.įour and a half years of careful ministrations later, it is ready to welcome guests, a singular holiday residence in a historic city that has emerged as a year-round destination in its own right, a sumptuous seven-suite hotel that’s also available for exclusive use. A Milan-based collector of modern and contemporary decorative arts, Enselmi saw the sun pouring through the 3m-tall windows of the palazzo’s first-floor spaces, thought immediately of the warehouse full of 20th-century furniture she had spent the past 15 years amassing – among which are original, historic designs by Ettore Sottsass and Caccia Dominioni – and knew she’d found it all a worthy home. It was a bluebird day in 2016 when Anna Maria Enselmi first laid eyes on the Palazzo dei Conti di Lecce, a sprawling 18th-century jewel with 13th-century foundations, set just behind the Duomo in Puglia’s baroque capital. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ![]()
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