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Ponte Vecchio seen from a first-floor balcony on Lungarno Acciaiuoli, its overhanging shops above the Arno and café umbrellas below, images © Tommaso Pini

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age suite at Ponte Vecchio Panorama with a gridded headboard wall, open dark-wood wardrobe and tea set on a macassar ebony table, images © Tommaso Pini Grey wool armchairs and a sage velvet sofa beside a balcony door onto the Ponte Vecchio houses, with a zebra print on the duck-egg wall, images © Tommaso Pini Third suite at Ponte Vecchio Panorama: a daybed beneath a backlit niche, shelves of small bronzes and a walnut writing desk with a brass lamp, images © Tommaso Pini Double bed against sage panels ruled in dark wood, olive linen at the window and a small landscape painting opposite, images © Tommaso Pini Ponte Vecchio Panorama living room with a geometric rug in sage, charcoal and ochre, a yellow tripod uplighter and the kitchen beyond, images © Tommaso Pini Three abstract bronze figures on dark stone plinths in a softly lit niche, images © Tommaso Pini View from the bed through to a walk-in wardrobe, sage panelling and a framed landscape in blue and green, Ponte Vecchio Panorama, images © Tommaso Pini Brass and glass coffee table, potted palm and cactus before tall windows onto the colourful riverside houses of the Oltrarno, images © Tommaso Pini Single bed set into a backlit alcove between open wardrobe shelving, a small framed drawing above, Ponte Vecchio Panorama, images © Tommaso Pini

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