Outdoor furniture for “Il Palazzotto Country House”

The intervention commissioned by the Country House “Il palazzolo”, a seventeenth-century building and manor house in the small village of Befa, provides for the outdoor furniture of a large terrace in coordination with the pre-existing structure of the garden that Gaia had built over thirty years does. The marked historicity of the context and the evocative surrounding environment nestled in the Sienese hills required a delicate initial evaluation phase for inclusion.

The new 9 by 3 meter structure installed in the terrace was made to measure, hot dip galvanized and graphite painted to coordinate with the existing pergola. The cover is a blackout roof sheet in Ecru colored PVC and embellished with a valance that runs around the entire perimeter.

The existing pergola, installed by Gaia in the early nineties on a terracotta floor, is a structure with a square base of 8 meters on each side. Each column has been finely worked with ornamental rings and handkerchiefs. The columns are connected to each other with structural support arches specifically designed as a shading support for the wisteria, the true protagonist of the garden. Wisteria is an ornamental climbing plant appreciated both for the beautiful colors of the hanging clusters of white, purple or pink flowers and for the perfume widely used in cosmetics and perfumery. Due to its nature as a climbing plant that expands easily, filling every corner of a pergola, it is the underlying supports, inserted during the growth phase, that outline the final shapes.

Both structures have been completed with garden furniture from the Impero collection, in particular with Impero tables and sofas and Giuditta chairs. The result is a whole where the Provencal and rustic touch of wisteria underlines and enriches the historical and important imprint of the structures and the Impero collection.