Celebrity Home: Sting's Backyard

<div class="byline"><div class="contributors">Today we are visiting Sting and Trudie Styler’s farm in Tuscany, near Florence. A terrace with stunning views of the vineyards and the Chianti hills beyond. The landscape design is by Arabella Lennox-Boyd. How I wish we could see the interiors as well!<br /><span class="c"><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/02_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Sting and his wife bought the property in 1997.<br /><span class="c"><br /></span> </div> </div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/03_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Typical Tuscan architecture. The 16th-century villa was built as a hunting lodge for the dukes of San Clemente.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/04_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Chinese wisteria covers the 118-foot-long oak pergola.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/05_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />An antique marble fountain rises out of the boxwood parterre.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/07_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Clipped boxwood frames beds of lavender, santolina, and white oleander.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/06_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />An ancient cedar of Lebanon overlooks the parterre, formally known as <span style="font-style: italic;">Il Giardino dei Limoni</span>, or garden of the lemon trees.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/10_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Sting came up with the idea for the oversize chessboard.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/01_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/09_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />Lunch on a gravel terrace in the shade of an oak tree.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/01/tuscan_paradise/08_tuscan_paradise.jpg" /><br />The pool, installed by a previous owner, overlooks the Valdarno Superiore valley.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><span class="c"><span>Photography by </span>Giancarlo Gardin</span> <br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span class="c"><span>Portrait by </span>Jaime Travezan</span><br /></div>All images and information from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.<br /><br /></div>

Celebrity Home: Sting's Backyard

Today we are visiting Sting and Trudie Styler’s farm in Tuscany, near Florence. A terrace with stunning views of the vineyards and the Chian...

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