Count Raniero Gnoli's Well-Curated Italian Home

With an immense appreciation of finery and all that is worthy of being antique, I am in awe of this home.  Count Raniero Gnoli shares his Italian home with Architectural Digest and all I can say is - "thanks dude."

One of the world’s greatest authorities on Roman and Byzantine marble, a scholar of Tantric Buddhism, and for more than 40 years a professor of Indology at Sapienza Università di Roma, Gnoli knows what he likes and what he doesn’t. With the exception of a few kitchen appliances and the electricity powering the lights, he tends to avoid living with things invented after the Industrial Revolution—and that includes television, fax machines, and the Internet. “Beauty is a prime necessity for me,” the count explains, puffing on a cigar. “Communication is not.” - Architectural Digest

via Architectural Digest