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An open window at Santa Croce Historical Home framing the Basilica of Santa Croce across the piazza, beside a living room with blue sofa, walnut games table, terracotta floor and five framed drawings.

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1. A full-length window at Santa Croce Historical Home opening onto the Basilica of Santa Croce across the piazza, beside a living room with blue sofa, walnut games table, five framed drawings and terracotta floor. © Tommaso Pini 3. A brass rain shower at Santa Croce Historical Home over a herringbone mosaic of white marble, framed in blue-grey veined marble. © Tommaso Pini 4. The dining room at Santa Croce Historical Home, a Carrara table dressed with a candelabrum and pomegranates, blue-grey dressers of brown transferware and a view through to the ochre kitchen. © Tommaso Pini 5. A suite at Santa Croce Historical Home with a tall grey upholstered headboard, blue bedcover and terracotta floor, a bust and old books on lit blue shelves. © Tommaso Pini 6. Recovered wall painting at Santa Croce Historical Home, faded stripes of red and sea green beneath a plastered beam. © Tommaso Pini 7. Piazza Santa Croce from a shuttered window of Santa Croce Historical Home, the Basilica's marble facade at the far end and a row of painted palazzi alongside. © Tommaso Pini 8. The view from Santa Croce Historical Home across Piazza Santa Croce to the palazzi of the square and the dome of Florence cathedral beyond. © Tommaso Pini 9. A white plaster bust of a woman in a carta da zucchero blue niche at Santa Croce Historical Home, set in an old stone door surround above a blue radiator. © Tommaso Pini 10. A blue-framed doorway at Santa Croce Historical Home opening into a marble bathroom with brass taps, a faded painted frieze and a geometric marble floor. © Tommaso Pini 11. The long dining room at Santa Croce Historical Home, chevron oak floor, timber-beamed ceiling, a stone fireplace and blue-grey dressers lined with transferware. © Tommaso Pini 10. A blue-framed doorway at Santa Croce Historical Home opening into a marble bathroom with brass taps, a faded painted frieze and a geometric marble floor. © Tommaso Pini 13. A window corner at Santa Croce Historical Home, an iron balcony rail framing the Basilica, a slipper chair in blue patterned fabric and a framed print of the piazza. © Tommaso Pini 14. The living room at Santa Croce Historical Home at dusk, an inlaid longcase clock, a walnut games table and grey armchairs beside French windows over the piazza. © Tommaso Pini 15. A carta da zucchero blue dresser at Santa Croce Historical Home holding brown transferware plates, a tureen and a sauce boat on a marble top. © Tommaso Pini 16. A suite at Santa Croce Historical Home where a recovered wall painting of red and sea-green stripes forms the headboard, with a carved column floor lamp beside the bed. © Tommaso Pini 17. A suite at Santa Croce Historical Home with blue bedcover, burgundy valance and an old Persian rug on terracotta, a dark bust on a lit blue shelf by the door. © Tommaso Pini

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