Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Property myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.HTSI editor Jo Ellison \u00a9 Marili AndreThe happy coupling of a Danish design quartet and a palazzo in Puglia makes\u00a0for one of the most pleasing interiors stories I\u2019ve seen in a while. Our cover story this week takes us to Villa Colucci, recently unveiled after a lengthy restoration by Rolf and Mette Hay, of the design company Hay, and Barbara \u201cBibi\u201d Husted Werner and her award-winning film director husband Martin Werner. Friends for the past eight years, the couples decided on this joint venture having co-purchased the villa in 2021. I personally cannot imagine any circumstance in which I would trust the outcome of such a plan, but between them the Hay-Werners have overseen a fabulous refurbishment.\u00a0Both couples enjoy colour, and were keen to preserve the building\u2019s more ancient charms, but they have also made bold choices in their choice of art and furniture. It\u00a0manages both to look spectacular and retain a simple barefoot beauty. As Martin says: \u201cWe didn\u2019t want it to look\u00a0perfect, we wanted it to feel lived in.\u201d Scarlett Conlon enjoys a first viewing of the property as they describe their \u201cshared approach\u201d.I\u2019m intrigued to see what Patrick Seguin has stashed in his warehouse\u00a0It sets the template for an issue in which we look at\u00a0new ways to live luxuriously, especially in our property portfolio. If I coveted the chequered pool and\u00a0floral-frescoed ceilings of Villa Colucci, I was positively green-eyed with envy on seeing the restorations going on in the Hebrides. A notoriously challenging place to\u00a0build, the island region of west Scotland has a precipitously low population and an ever-dwindling supply of local talent. Now, a new generation of builders, interior designers and incomers are\u00a0hoping to buck this trend. Charlotte Sinclair made the\u00a0trip to the isles of Harris, Mull and Skye to meet the homeowners working with indigenous materials and techniques to preserve and evolve some of the cottages and buildings. The results are a gorgeous confluence of\u00a0history, wood-clad comfort and majestic views. I defy you\u00a0not to check out the local listings.The gallerist Patrick Seguin has been investing in 20th-century furniture since 1989, the year he opened his namesake gallery in Paris. Throughout the intervening decades he has built up one of the world\u2019s most authoritative collections including, in particular, works by Jean Prouv\u00e9. Many of the pieces now decorate his apartment in the Marais where, he explains, they work in\u00a0dialogue with art, design and architecture: \u201cOur house is designed as\u00a0a canvas for this interaction.\u201d Though\u00a0I\u2019m no expert in\u00a0any of these fields, the combination of a \u201ccreaky\u201d 17th-century space, Alexander Calder sculptures and Prouv\u00e9\u2019s Standard chairs\u00a0makes for a rather delicious conversation. Seguin opens up his home for us to have a\u00a0poke around \u2013 I\u2019m now intrigued to see what he\u2019s got stashed in his warehouse space\u00a0in Nancy, not to mention the\u00a0185 acres in the south\u00a0of\u00a0France where he\u2019s \u201cnestled\u201d seven of Prouv\u00e9\u2019s Demountable Houses.As I write, the final touches are being applied to the upcoming Cartier exhibition at the V&A museum, the first\u00a0about the jewellery house to have been mounted in the\u00a0UK for nearly three decades. Since its treasures are too\u00a0numerous to list in their entirety, we asked Nick Foulkes to focus instead on the story of one of its most enduring motifs, the panther, about which he delivers a sparkling history. Keen-eyed viewers of the Academy Awards earlier this month will have seen the Panth\u00e8re languishing around the neck of Oscar-winner Zoe\u00a0Salda\u00f1a or pawing at the hands of Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. Hard to imagine the lucky cat was first conceived in 1914: it\u2019s still purrfect more than a century later.\u00a0@jellison22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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