COLUMN OF GRILLO, CASTELNUOVO BERARDENGA
Solid brick tower, squared off, podero sa, from the early 1800s, refined by moldings
recurring, three stories high. Many windows ad
arch, large interior spaces, round arches,
impressive and at the same time "light". Of
great aesthetic impact, it was built in adherence to the previous building, for the sole purpose of the manor house.
A flight of stairs in travertine, external,
“Lived aspect” for the suggestive consumption
of many decades, leads to the entrance of the first
floor. Other scales, these made new in iron
with steps in seasoned solid oak, of
high thickness, have design and construction
accurate, pleasant effect. Going up, give
windows, all in solid chestnut, profiled
from ancient platbands, you can see panoramas
gorgeous, really framed postcards, and,
on the ceiling, muscular beams all in chestnut
of first choice, alternating with antique tiles
originating from the building, first carefully disassembled and then reassembled with equal care. Finally sandblasted to give enough.
homogeneity, without exceeding, as must be a beautiful "Tuscan" work, done according to the rules of the art.
They are works to be appreciated, enjoyed for the beauty of the wood and the architectural invoice, the roof structures with
the mighty chestnut beams, with large lights, locked in the ancient way with red-hot irons, passers-by
and bolted into special "blinds" of the beams.
Above, the terracotta mantle, after waterproofing, insulation and the modern casting of concrete and mesh, is in
Ancient "bent tiles and tiles", ie those existing pleasantly irregular in thickness and shape, carefully disassembled,
brought down, on the benches, and then brought back to the roof to find their place, up to the top, aligned, cleaned of
musk, proud to return to live for who knows how many decades to come.
The cyclopean “cellars” could not be missing in this building, with beautiful hipped ceilings in four
wedges of solid bricks, hand made, masterfully placed "with a knife", of the coast, respected in the restoration, only cleaned with sandblasting, even today of great enjoyment. Other ceilings are "vaulted" always in terracotta with
mosaic tiles, and still other times plastered. Round arches, some with lowered arches, always in solid brick, always of great harmonious effect.
This is just one of the units available in this wonderful complex.
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