Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic If Italian homes are renowned for their warm welcome, Villa Colucci in Puglia may have the edge.\u00a0Here, you see it before you feel it. Giant glazed\u00a0ceramic capital\u00a0letters mounted on the palazzo\u2019s 19th-century fa\u00e7ade spell out \u201csalve\u201d, the\u00a0daily salutation that Italians extend to greet both\u00a0friends\u00a0and strangers.\u00a0Given the creative backgrounds of Villa Colucci\u2019s new owners, one would assume this is a\u00a0piece of contemporary art erected during their three-year restoration. Rolf and Mette Hay, the Copenhagen-based founders of furniture and home accessories brand Hay, co-purchased Villa Colucci in 2021 with their close friends and neighbours, Barbara \u201cBibi\u201d Husted Werner \u2013 owner of the now-closed but once-cult Holly Golightly fashion boutique \u2013 and her award-winning film-director husband Martin Werner. Both couples are known as arbiters of contemporary cool, but\u00a0the sign outside their shared holiday home in Selva di\u00a0Fasano was mounted some\u00a0130 years ago when\u00a0the building was still the private summer residence\u00a0of the Colucci family.They purchased the property mid-pandemic, over FaceTime. \u201cFirst came the place, then came the plan,\u201d laughs Bibi as the foursome guide me through the house.\u00a0Buying a 478sq m palazzo \u2013 with 11 bedrooms, the same number of bathrooms and 20,000sq m of surrounding woodland with a traditional trullo \u2013 without seeing it in person was not as irrational as it might first\u00a0sound. \u201cMartin\u2019s sister and brother-in-law had for many years imported fruit and vegetables into Denmark from nearby Monopoli, and we had our own farmhouse near them for 12 years, so we were already\u00a0very familiar\u00a0with the area,\u201d explains Bibi.\u00a0Pursuing successful careers in Copenhagen\u2019s close-knit creative scene, the Hays and Werners had known of each other since 2000 but only became friends eight years ago when Bibi invited the Hays to her 40th-birthday party.\u00a0Shortly afterwards they started sharing family holidays\u00a0in Puglia, where they bonded over their love of its\u00a0lifestyle and simple pleasures: the food, flea\u00a0markets and near-annual warm weather.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s how our interest in finding something together came about,\u201d continues Bibi. It was Martin\u2019s sister and brother-in-law, Pernille and Lars Lembcke, who brought the property to the couples\u2019 attention, and \u201csince it was so vast, it\u00a0made sense for us to share in the pleasure \u2013 and the burden \u2013 of the refurbishment\u201d, she says.Stepping through the doors for the first time in 2022, both couples saw its potential. Despite being vacant for more than 25 years \u201cit had very good bones and there were no big surprises\u201d, says Mette. She, along with her co-owners, was insistent on restoring rather than a complete refit. \u201cYou can choose to do that, but in our opinion you can destroy a house like this,\u201d says Rolf. \u201cThe beauty is somewhat in the decay.\u201d The Lembckes were appointed project managers to oversee the restoration and local workforce while the couples were back in Copenhagen (\u201cWe are so lucky that\u00a0they were our eyes and ears,\u201d says Mette); the architect Francesco Mastrorosa was commissioned to\u00a0bring the palazzo back to life.Unprepared to touch the near-perfectly preserved tiled floors by putting in underfloor electrics, they lowered the domed ceilings in several rooms to hide the electrical system above \u2013 invisible but for discreet vents that provide heating and air-conditioning. The doors, windows and shutters were removed, restored and rebuilt,\u00a0and the walls given a light limewash treatment to\u00a0retain their aged patina. Anything that was salvageable was reused, including the one-of-a-kind terrazzo bathtub\u00a0in a first-floor bathroom. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want it to look perfect, we wanted it to feel lived-in,\u201d says Martin.Solar panels on the roof and \u201can expensive decision\u201d to be self-sufficient with their own water supply \u2013 which meant drilling down 850m to connect with the waterboard\u00a0\u2013 have made Villa Colucci a sustainable home\u00a0away from home. Even with four strong opinions,\u00a0the project \u2013 while extensive \u2013 was relatively plain sailing. \u201cWe all come from fields of work where we\u00a0are used to taking lots of creative decisions, so we were all extremely decisive,\u201d says Bibi. \u00a0Previously, the palazzo belonged to the affluent landowning Colucci family. Brothers Giambattista and Giammatteo Colucci were prominent figures in local and national government in the early 1900s, renowned locally for their generosity. They were also keen enthusiasts of the technical innovations of the early 20th century, hence their decision to commission engineer Angelo Messeni to design the family home after being impressed with his design for the Petruzzelli Theatre in the Pugliese capital Bari.It accounts for the palazzo\u2019s mantel and the unconventional layout that lends itself to multiple communal spaces and miles of wall space for the Hay-Werner contemporary art collections. Much of the art comes from Bibi\u2019s Holly Golightly shop collection, and Danish artists are well represented. In the bedrooms, large wall hangings by the crochet artist Lulu Kaalund and embroidered canvases by Loji H\u00f6skuldsson are complemented with ceramic vases by Karl Monies. In the\u00a0upstairs bar, works by Danish-Iranian artist Farshad Farzankia bounce off light installations by Nat Bloch Gregersen. Beside it, in the snug, an Evren Tekinoktay neon work\u00a0sits beside sought-after sculptures by the\u00a0late\u00a0Bj\u00f8rn Wiinblad and a bedroom plays\u00a0host to\u00a0works\u00a0by Alexander Tovborg.Elsewhere, large pieces by an international line-up including Emma Kohlmann, Andi Fischer, Anton Funck, Kent Iwemyr and Peter Doig take over the lime-washed walls with their exuberant palettes. Corridors and landings are decorated with embroidered Berenike Corcuera tarot cards and traditional Asafo flags. The circus\u2011themed trompe-l\u2019oeil and floral-frescoed ceilings were handpainted by a local artisan, Francesco Melcarne\u00a0Casi, and each room is an unadulterated celebration of colour. \u201cIt\u2019s very rare that two families appreciate the same art, and it\u2019s even rarer to have four people around the age of 50 who are not afraid of colours\u00a0but are embracing them!\u201d laughs Martin.The furniture curation is just as eclectic. Extravagant antique lampshades originating from Copenhagen\u2019s Tivoli Gardens or sourced from the Danish antiques dealer Monsieur Lars throw light on\u00a0many of the collaborators with whom Rolf and Mette have worked at Hay, including Muller Van Severen and Jessica Hans, as well as prototypes they have just finished developing. Beds have been relocated\u00a0from their home in Denmark and all the details\u00a0around the house \u2013 from textiles to utensils \u2013 come from Hay. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to fill the house with the\u00a0brand, but it felt silly buying a tea towel from somewhere else when we make them,\u201d says Mette.Nearly everything in the palazzo was furnished with\u00a0the couples\u2019 existing belongings, which arrived on\u00a0three huge trucks from Copenhagen just before Easter\u00a0last year. Ninety per cent of the items that were delivered didn\u2019t have a pre-decided destination, but Rolf and Bibi became designated arrangers and it was\u00a0finished in three days. The contemporary is complemented everywhere by finds from the couples\u2019 antique auctions and flea-market excursions. A\u00a0shirt painted by Picasso, a midcentury American dentist\u2019s cabinet, Gio Ponti chairs, religious artefacts from a church in Ostuni and antique Italian olive-oil dispensers create a mix that is engaging and intriguing. \u201cOur\u00a0shared approach to art is very significant,\u201d says Rolf. \u201cIn interior design, people spend a\u00a0lot of time and energy in matching things, whereas for\u00a0us it\u2019s simply about the love of objects and art, it doesn\u2019t need to match;\u00a0it\u2019s more interesting to bring beautiful things together.\u201d It\u2019s true, agrees Bibi: \u201cArt makes a home feel like a home very quickly.\u201d The\u00a0pair disagreed on only one thing. \u201cBibi likes\u00a0to twist a chair; I\u00a0like them straight,\u201d laughs Rolf.The group intends to open up the house for rentals later this year. As I\u2019m given the tour, Rolf leaves us to meet two vineyard experts who are preparing to plant 2,200 wine stocks so that the property can start to produce Hay\u2011Werner wine. He rejoins us holding three lemons he\u00a0has plucked from a\u00a0tree on the way back. \u201cHome-grown!\u201d he smiles. This quickly becomes a good reason to\u00a0knock\u00a0up a round of\u00a0G&Ts at the first-floor wooden bar\u00a0that Martin commissioned from a team in Bucharest \u2013\u00a0with whom his production company, Bacon, had previously worked \u2013 before descending to the antique tile-lined De Manincor kitchen, once housing Villa Colucci\u2019s livestock but now gleaming\u00a0in\u00a0polished concrete with Stephen Bird\u00a0ceramic wall\u00a0hangings. The four settle\u00a0in around their kitchen table against the backdrop of a huge rope installation by the German artist Joana Schneider \u2013 the first piece that the couples purchased together, specifically for the villa. \u00a0In the time since completing the project in summer 2024, they and their children \u2013 who range in age from 14\u00a0to 27 \u2013 have realised a long-held dream. \u201cWhen the villa was under construction, I imagined us walking around the house in bare feet, the kids all around,\u00a0someone cooking in the kitchen, someone playing music, and last summer that all came to life \u2013 it was very special,\u201d says Mette. \u201cEven when you\u2019re in a big\u00a0group, you can find a cosy corner to yourself. Ultimately, we all just love to share and look forward to welcoming many more people to this place.\u201d The writing was already on the wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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