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How a Master Restorer Turned a Ruined Croatian Monastery Into a Personal Paradise
On the Croatian island of Lopud, master restorer Toto Bergamo Rossi has created an Edenic retreat.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, March 20181/10Terraced gardens feature cypress and olive trees set against a stone wall bordering the property.
Sittings Editor: Hamish Bowles.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, March 20182/10A view from the veranda overlooks a blue expanse of Adriatic Sea.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, March 20183/10“It’s all very monastic,” Bergamo Rossi notes of his interiors. “But you don’t need more; the amazing thing is you have only to open the windows and look out.” Bergamo Rossi designed the seventeenth century–style console tables in the living room.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, March 20184/10Twin beds made up with rough linen sheets from Red Chair antiques in Hudson, New York.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, March 20185/10A dining area with a table built from scaffolding planks and IKEA bases and terra-cotta floor tiles handmade in Umbria.