Monday, June 25, 2018

Florence~ Palazzi and io

Two things I have really gone after this trip: linens and palaces.  I can't get enough of both.  I want them all!  I want to wrap myself up in glory, sumptuous, luxurious, glamorous, decadent, staircases to the heavens, marble, velvet, embroidery fantasticness.  Seriously.  So in keeping with my palace obsession, this weekend I traveled to Florence to walk some serious palace action.  All the while, imagining that I live there. 
First off, Palazzo Vecchio.  What more can you ask for? Once a Medici home, this castle-like fortress with groovy castellated roof line and tower is right next to the Uffizi.  As you walk to the entrance, you can thumb your nose at all the suckers standing in line to enter the Uffizi.  No one goes here!!  What the heck?  So you can roam the place, imagining that it is YOUR home, which is what I do. 
I LOVE the style of the frescoes here.  That is called grottoesque Raffaelesco and I can't get enough.  I must order an ENTIRE set of dishes in that pattern.
I want alllllllll of this..... see these floors, how they are worn down and shiny?  How many ruthless Medici walked on this floor on their way to order the secret assassination of someone?
Or wander up and down these staircases arranging for soandso to become Pope?  Or to kidnap someone's wife and hold her as a sex slave, then dump her in the river?
I mean, the Medici were fabulous!  Okay so there were some episodes of immoral behavior, true.  But they sure knew interior design.
And I know what I need after all this splendor...... Campari Spritz!!

1 comment:

  1. dove the queso for those chips? That all looks gorgeous, but come on? No peanut butter and no nacho cheese?

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