Byblos Art Hotel in Verona, Italy is a truly unique landscaping design project: created to host a permanent exhibition of modern and contemporary art, Byblos Art Hotel wonderfully combines different architectural styles, exploiting the contrasts between classic and modern design, past and present, architecture and Italian style gardens.
The main body of the villa dates back to the 5th Century and was originaly built by Architect Michele Sanmicheli, who chose the Venetian style for the villa. Paghera Group, in the overhauling of Byblos gardens, chose to safeguard the coexistance of classical elements and modern ones that already existed, without further introduce new stylistic codes into the landscape design, mirroring the architecture of the splendid villa. The century-old trees as antique olive trees were not only conserved but brought back to best condition by attentive tree surgery.
The main entrance of the villa is beautifully enriched by a classical Italian style garden: the path in white stone leading to the main entrance is adorned by pots of candid white blooms, and leads to the red Verona marble fountain, the culmination of elegance and classical forms of the villa. The cottage market garden was reassigned its original prurpose: a jubilee of colors, scents and Mediterranean perfumes thank to the scented herbs, ancient roses and colorful peonies.
What Byblos Art Hotel by Paghera shows is that it is possible to adapt a tecnologically advanced layout to a historical context, accentuating not only the contrasts between modern and classical but exploiting the harmony and elegance.