This magnificent room sits empty in an abandoned villa in Italy, its elaborately frescoes walls no longer privy to the admiring gazes they must once have courted. Happily, Italian interior and travel photographer Paolo Abate has made it his mission to document such monuments to former splendour, his Instagram awash with images of deserted villas and ancient palaces, alongside charming day-to-day observations as he ventures off on different assignments for the likes of Architectural Digest, GQ and more.
