A Tale of Two Springs
At Villa Malfatti, a 19th-century property in the countryside of Piedmont, two gardens sit on either side of the villa, an Italian garden to the front and an English garden to the back. The villa itself feels like a bridge between two worlds, suspended between landscapes and eras.
A Tale of Two Springs reimagines the villa, once inhabited by opera singer Teresa Belloc, as a floral stage where open doors, garden light and shifting arrangements allow interior and exterior to softly blur. In a small sitting room dominated by floral upholstery, garden stems combine with forest green linen, scene sketches in blue frames and a portrait of a woman to create an imaginary world that links past and present, composed yet alive with color.
In the main salon, striped curtains allude to a sipario, opening onto terracotta geraniums recalling childhood garden memories near Salerno in Campania, and floral tension in a space that shifts between still life, domestic scene and the unexpected.
Across the series, the flowers gradually move from arranged objects to looser gestures of earth and cut blooms, as though fragments of the gardens briefly enter the villa itself and the two worlds start to blend together. Color moves through the rooms almost like a visitor itself, settling briefly between garden light, floral arrangements and the villa’s passageways.
Rather than redesigning the villa, the series approaches it as a form of listening, a subtle, almost theatrical intervention that explores memory and the poetry of in-between spaces, where the salons become both interior and stage, composed yet lived-in, classical yet expressive.
Art Direction & concept - Follia delle Rose @folliadellerose
Photography - Agnese Morganti @aggiemorganti
Floral Artist - Letizia dei Fiori @letizia_dei_fiori
Venue - Villa Malfatti @villamalfatti
Curtain Fabric - Rubelli (Chain Stripe - Lavender, designed by @lukeedwardhall) @rubelli_group