When Brunello Cucinelli, the cashmere king of Italy, bought a huge house
in a 14th-century hill town, he couldn’t stop there. He had to have the
town as well
If you had to describe your dream home, it would probably be much like
Brunello Cucinelli’s. The cashmere mogul lives in a 17th-century manor
house in Umbria, just up the road from Perugia. It’s set in an
impossibly romantic 14th-century hill town, which he also owns and which
forms the HQ of his business empire. And casa Cucinelli is the dream:
flagged floors and vaulted ceilings, 400-year-old charm with
21st-century air conditioning.
The house is filled with Renaissance art and antiques, the gardens with
cicadas and cypress and olive trees. Terraces lead off every room and
there’s even a choice of swimming pools, for goodness’ sake – indoor for
winter, outdoor for summer. If Cucinelli weren’t such a nice, sincere
chap, you could easily hate him. Or at least not buy his clothes in
protest.
But it’s difficult to begrudge him his house, because he’s worked
incredibly hard for it, hauling himself up from humble beginnings...
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