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The floor is composed of seven layers of epoxy, the colors nodding to the Silene colorata that grow on nearby dunes. Jørgen Wolff’s Conus pendant fixtures populate the living and dining areas, where Zimmermann’s floor extends and custom diagonal steel frames support the floor-to-ceiling windows; a Swiss 19th-century chair sits at right. Florentine architect Ugo Miglietta built the single-story, 3,205-square-foot main house in 1970 with a Castiglione sandstone facade and a painted-iron stair leading to the roof terrace. custom steel media unit slides out of a living-area wall to reveal the TV. A custom headboard upholstered in jute, Mollis Lux pendant by Maria Grazia Rosin, and Dark Forest, a Roberto Matta painting, furnish the main bedroom, its floor coated in two shades of micro-cement Paola Navone’s Rafael table on the terrace. In the main bathroom, wall tiles high above the toilet were removed but the glue retained, forming an abstract pattern; the ceramic tiles are by Le Corbusier. In the guest house, beneath the Compendium Plate ceiling fixture by Daniel Rybakken, Henkel also made the painted plywood closet/bench/sculpture. Vico Magistretti’s Broomstick sofa, Enric Miralles square stools, and a Miguel Milá TMD lamp stand on the porcelain-stoneware roof terrace. Designed similarly to Miglietta’s main house, the 625-square-foot guest house was added in 1974, and now Palomba Serafini Associati’s HiRay table and chairs sit on its Luserna stone terrace; the steel storage unit against the main house is custom.

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At their summer compound in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, VMCF Atelier married coprincipals Valerio Ferrari and Cinzia Mazzone commissioned an artistic floor by German painter Peter Zimmermann for the main house’s living area, which is furnished with Francesco Binfaré’s On the Rocks sofa.

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