The double-height hall, its wooden stair rising past painted panels

La villa

Let whole, to one party

Villa Cevoli is let on an exclusive-use basis: the whole house, the pool and the walled garden, with nobody else on the property while you are here.

Ten bedrooms take twenty-two — five on the first floor and five on the second — and eight of the ten have a bathroom of their own. The second floor is air-conditioned throughout; the floors below have cooling fans and shutters a metre deep.

The rooms

Everything below comes with the house.

Uso esclusivo dell’intera proprietà

The main salon

Carved stone fireplace

The room the house is built around, and the one everyone drifts back to.

The dining room

Seats the party · doors to the garden

A long walnut table on a chequerboard floor, with the garden at one end of it.

The formal dining room: a long walnut table, red-seated chairs and doors to the garden

The second salon

Marble fireplace · oil paintings

Quieter, and where the after-dinner half of the party ends up.

A salon with a marble fireplace, an oil painting above it and a blue sofa

The billiard room

Full-size table

Cues on the wall, a chandelier over the baize, and no reason to go to bed.

The billiard room, cues on the wall and a chandelier over the green baize

The Chinese room

Second floor · television

A long white sofa under a pair of Chinese portraits: the room the teenagers claim.

The Chinese room: a long white sofa beneath a pair of Chinese portraits

The kitchen

Professional range · long table

Built to feed twenty-two, whether or not a cook is coming.

The kitchen: a professional range, a long table and a chandelier under terracotta vaults

The vaulted corridor

Runs the depth of the house

The spine of the building, cool at every hour, with rooms opening off it either side.

The barrel-vaulted corridor, a chandelier down the middle and benches along the wall

III

The bedrooms

A four-poster under white muslin, a small deep-set window beside it

A bedroom with a painted headboard and a blue and yellow striped cover on terracotta

A bed under a white canopy beneath sloping beams and a skylight

A bedroom with a quilted blue headboard against pink walls on a patterned tiled floor

A bedroom with pink walls, striped day-beds and a shuttered window

A single bed with a yellow cover, a painted chest on the shelf above and rush-seated chairs

Ten bedrooms, eight with their own bathroom

Five on the first floor — three of them ensuite, and two more that share a bathroom between them as a family suite — alongside the billiard room.

Five on the second, every one with its own bathroom, and air conditioning through the whole floor. The rooms are furnished the way such houses are: painted headboards, a four-poster in one of them, terracotta or patterned tile underfoot, and shutters that make an August afternoon bearable.

The bathrooms

A bathroom in apricot tile with a bath and shower

A bathroom with a bath and shower under a blue-and-white tiled frieze

A white-tiled bathroom with a pedestal basin and a curtained window

Questions we are asked

Si può affittare una parte della casa?

No. Villa Cevoli si affitta per intero, a un solo gruppo, senza nessun altro nella proprietà durante il soggiorno.

Quante persone ospita?

Ventidue, in dieci camere: cinque al primo piano e cinque al secondo. Otto delle dieci hanno il bagno privato.

C’è l’ascensore?

Sì, a tutti e tre i piani. È il motivo per cui questa casa funziona per un gruppo in cui qualcuno preferisce non fare scale.

C’è l’aria condizionata?

Il secondo piano è climatizzato in ogni stanza, e altrove ci sono ventilatori. Diteci quali camere vi interessano e le assegniamo di conseguenza.

Il giardino è sicuro per i bambini?

È cinto da mura e cancelli su ogni lato, e i cancelli sono elettrici. La piscina non ha una recinzione a sé.