Villa M by Pierattelli Architetture Modernizes 1950s Florence Estate

Located in the hills around Florence, in a wonderful green landscape, Villa M is spread over three floors occupying an area of 1,000 square meters. Pierattelli Architetture studio signed the renovation and interior project enhancing this building from the late 1950s and proposing a new history, between tradition and charm. This single-family residence emerges for its formal cleanliness – due to a stylistic change in the facade – but also for its typical Tuscan features, maintained and renewed through a precise and accurate architectural intervention.

“The general idea of the project,” explains architect Andrea Pierattelli, ”was to give shape to simple and regular spaces, perfect to bring out furnishings and textures but also to emphasize the spaciousness of the rooms without saturating them. A neutral box that would speak to the place and nature, in which the personality of the owner would become the protagonist.”

The villa offers generous spaces, almost entirely facing south, thanks to a renovation of the original architecture aimed at increasing volumes and adding rooms. Inside, a large living room, kitchen, dining room and library emerge on the first level, while four bedrooms are positioned on the upper floor. In fact, through the re-roofing and attics, now made of steel, it was possible to shape large spaces, move the internal staircase in the living room to the north side, and reshape the layout to have more open areas communicating with each other.

Living room, dining room and library dialogue distinguished by the bold colors of furnishings and artwork: from red to blue, each shade participates in a triumph of color and light. The kitchen, in its essentiality, features a marble countertop and sage-green quills, and is enhanced by a bright, shining waterfall by Catellani & Smith.

On the second floor, the south-facing rooms are flooded with natural light. The two master bedrooms boast terraces and Jacuzzis, but also views of the most beautiful and naturalistic part of Florence. Sharp geometries, dynamic textures and canned furnishings in neutral colors follow the home’s common thread, adding harmony. Also present are two colorful and vibrant twin guest rooms.

The entrance, once used for storage, has been transformed into an outdoor loggia in which there is a billiard table, a mobile bar and a sitting room. In the basement, on the other hand, the studio, gym, and spa area stand out, while in the back, laundry, technical spaces, and a cinema room clad in shades of green embellish the villa.

Adding appeal is a pool house: originally a greenhouse, this room totally transformed by the designers is now a valuable space for welcoming guests or relaxing after a dip in the pool. Emerging for the simplicity of its forms and the natural materials chosen such as wood, resin on the floor and rough plaster on the walls, the pool house opens onto a 20-meter-long pool with teak decks and various types of seating from which to admire the verdant Tuscan landscape.

In the outdoor spaces, small regular terracotta strips and large squared slabs of pietra serena, in a reference to a never ostentatious Tuscan tradition, redefine the space around the villa, with new geometric designs tracing the functions of the individual rooms. Completing the property is a vegetable garden in corten steel tubs, a large garden dotted with olive trees with large patches of aromatic Mediterranean plants and rose gardens, as well as a small golf driving range and a car pergola.