Unstitch and Sew: The Ancient Craft Behind Our Assisi Restoration
There is a room in Building 19 that we did not know existed in this form. For centuries it wore a skin of plaster, flat and pale and unremarkable, the sort of surface you walk past without a second thought. Then, one morning this summer, the masons finished stripping it back — and the room […]
The Pink Stone of Assisi: What a Medieval Wall Reveals in Restoration
There is a moment, in every restoration, when a wall stops being a surface and becomes a story. It happened to us on a bright morning inside one of our two historic buildings in Assisi, when the last of a modern plaster skin came away under the mason’s tools and revealed what had been hidden […]
Beneath the Plaster: The Medieval Arches We Are Bringing Back to Light in Assisi
There is a particular silence that falls on a building site the moment a hidden arch reveals itself. Last week, in one of the ground-floor rooms of our fourteenth-century convent in Assisi, a mason tapped away a panel of twentieth-century plaster and stepped back without a word. Behind it, framed in pale Subasio stone, was […]
Inside a 14th-Century Convent: What We Found Behind the Walls
The restoration of Via San Francesco 19 has revealed extraordinary secrets — medieval frescoes, Gothic arches, and centuries of history. A behind-the-scenes look at what we found behind the walls of a 14th-century Assisi convent.