cated in Italy���s Veneto region, during the 1540s. It comprised his first commission from the Venetian aristocracy.
Pisani���s current owners, Manuela Bedeschi and Carlo
Bonetti, in turn, have done the same with Palladio���s now
ancient design. They have sympathetically restored the
house while also incorporating a minimalist, contemporary apartment within the Palladian shell on the top floor
and a gallery exhibiting contemporary art on the ground
floor.
Manuela Bedeschi, an avant-garde sculptor, designed
the apartment with little intrusion on the structural components of Palladio���s scheme. Bedeschi���s son, who ocHYLAND
