The Power of Art

It makes sense that the interiors of a centuries-old apartment in Florence reflect the colors of an iconic Renaissance painting

David Masello

Ann Huff received a letter from her client—a 20-page one. In the missive, her client wrote to Huff saying “you are the only person I’ve ever met who can marry art and design and do it so well,” adding that she “is a once-in-a-lifetime talent and for anyone that truly loves art, you have the rarest of rare gifts.” “How can I call it anything but a love letter?” says Huff, the interior designer who transformed her client’s 16th-century Florentine apartment into a home wholly relevant today for a family that lives most of their time in Chattanooga. “From the beginning, the clients and I saw eye to eye on everything, and the confidence they showed in me, by giving me what was essentially carte blanche in the design, makes…

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