If
you love buildings from a time where craftsmanship and beauty went into
every inch, in which form was as important as function, then you will
appreciate seeing the most beautiful ceilings in the world. Each gives
us a reason to look up and to marvel at the work that went into them.
For example, shown above is the Castello di Sammezzano in Leccio, Italy.
The mesmerizing ceiling, vaults and decor of the
Peacock Room in this abandoned Italian palazzo near Florence speak for
themselves. Peacocks, and other exotica, were the source of the inspired
decoration to be found throughout the seemingly endless empty rooms of
this daydream building. The Moorish-style makeover of what was a much
older palace was the life work of Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes
d’Aragona. Although the aristocratic Italian architect, engineer,
botanist, philosopher and politician never visited the Levant or the
Orient, he imagined a world of exquisite and highly exotic forms and
colors that he brought to life in Leccio between 1843 and 1889. A hotel
in the 20th Century, the palazzo and its polychromatic Peacock Room are
in limbo today.
See nine
more gorgeous ceilings in a list from the BBC
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