When Milan-based art collector Anna Maria Enselmi acquired her holiday home in Castro Marina, a small fisherman’s village in Salento in Italy’s Puglia region, she wanted it to be anything but ordinary.
The 350-square-metre, five-bedroom villa that was built at the turn of the 20th century, soon became a showcase for her collection of original modern decorative arts and furnishings compiled since the 90s – adding a contemporary element to the historic building.
Set on the cliff’s edge with pristine views looking out across the Adriatic Sea towards Corfu and southern Albania, Anna Maria says it felt like being on a two-storey ship. “When I first saw it I was wowed, it was love at first sight,” she tells us.
When she
