Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los Angeles' West Hollywood neighbourhood.
It was spring of 1997, and Scali, a law student, was buried deep in his textbooks. Lewis, who at the time was in private practice, was reading The New York Times 鈥 but, apparently, also keeping an eye on a fellow customer.
鈥淚 was studying, he recognized the books, he came up to me smiling,鈥 Scali says. 鈥淚 was smitten by him.鈥
The rest, as they say, is history: The couple started dating, eventually moved in together, and in August 2023 celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary.
They鈥檙e now embarking on an exciting new chapter of their lives as owners of a 16th-century farmhouse in Italy鈥檚 famed Tuscany province, which they purchased in 2021 and have since renovated into a luxury, eight-bedroom villa that opened for guests this summer. The villa is available as a full-property rental, but Scali and Lewis also spend time there when they鈥檙e in Italy 鈥 and eventually plan to live there full-time in retirement.
For Scali, whose grandfather is originally from Reggio Calabria in Italy, the idea to buy a property in his family鈥檚 homeland had been percolating for a while. He grew up in the Cleveland suburbs, surrounded by a large Italian family 鈥 鈥渕y grandparents had eight kids, and I have like 50 cousins,鈥 he says 鈥 that gathered on Sundays for meals cooked by his grandmother.
鈥淪he had her own garden, and she made her own sauce,鈥 he says. 鈥淎ll the kids would come over. It was a lot of fun.鈥
But after relocating to the West Coast, Scali, who had just one cousin living nearby, found himself longing for those boisterous family gatherings of his childhood. 鈥淗aving grown up in that, I missed it later in life when I moved away,鈥 he says.
Around 2016, he began taking Italian classes to improve the four years of courses he鈥檇 had in college. He and Lewis also had begun travelling regularly to Italy, mostly to the Tuscany area. Their trips began to plant seeds about owning a property and eventually retiring there 鈥 though Lewis took a bit longer to come fully on board with the idea.
鈥淚t was really Chris鈥 dream 鈥 I would have been content to rent,鈥 he says. 鈥淏ut I was supportive because it was something that seemed really important to Chris. But as we started to look at places, I became quite excited about it myself.鈥
The couple started scanning online listings (鈥渁 friend called it my real estate porn,鈥 Scali says) and began actively searching for properties in 2019, concentrating on Florence. But they soon discovered that, even with a sizable budget between $1.5 and $2 million, what they were looking for 鈥 an apartment big enough to host visiting family and friends, as well as large gatherings similar to those joyful Sunday dinners at Scali鈥檚 grandparents鈥 home 鈥 was far beyond reach in town.
鈥淪o we started shifting our idea: Well, what if we lived in the countryside? What if we lived in the Chianti [region]?鈥 Scali says.
They refocused their search to that part of Italy, known for its beautiful towns, ancient castles, and vineyards producing some of the world鈥檚 most revered wines. But in early 2020, the pandemic put a dent in their plans, since Lewis 鈥 who was not an Italian citizen 鈥 wasn鈥檛 allowed to enter the country to join Scali, who in 2019 was granted citizenship through his family.
However, Scali obtained permission through the Italian consulate to bring Lewis over, and in the spring of 2021, they embarked on a six-week mission to find their 鈥渄ream鈥 place. They also reevaluated their vision for their future property and decided they would rent it out 鈥 meaning they鈥檇 also be making a new foray into the hospitality industry: as owners, not just guests.
After touring nearly 30 properties, they found one that seemed promising: a multi-bedroom estate with a pool, guesthouse and on-site vineyard. But there were several major concerns, including the awkward layout of the house, the sheer size of the property and an unpermitted guesthouse.
Then the couple heard about another property for sale: a 16th-century stone farmhouse, which once served as a lookout post to defend the valley between Siena and Florence, on an approximately 1.2-acre lot that also had a pool and standalone guesthouse. Perched off a winding road on a hillside about 45 minutes outside of Florence, the property, previously known as Antico Podere Marciano, had been a rustic, family-run bed-and-breakfast.
鈥淲e immediately fell in love with this house,鈥 Scali recalls. 鈥淵ou look out and you see all the vineyards, you see all that hillside dotted with castles and towers and stone houses, and off in the distance, you see the towers of San Gimignano [a small medieval town nearby]. So it鈥檚 just a really stunning view.鈥
With a $1.95 million asking price, the property was just within their budget. And at the same time, negotiations with the other property had hit a snag related to the unpermitted guesthouse, which would have to be demolished in order for a sale to go through.
Adds Scali: 鈥淪o we said, thank you, but no thank you.鈥
After discontinuing negotiations, they turned their efforts to the farmhouse property, negotiating a final price of $1.7 million. Closing took about six months: an incredibly long timeframe compared to the weeks-long window they were used to in California, but fairly quick in Italy, Scali says.
After receiving the keys, Scali and Lewis renamed the property Villa Ardore, which has a layered significance, Scali explains. 鈥淎rdore represents the Italian word for ardor, which generally means loving passion, and Ardore is the name of the small town my grandfather Scali鈥檚 family came from in Reggio Calabria. It has a special meaning for us because it captures both our family history and our feeling for the place.鈥
Excited as they were, the couple also felt overwhelmed by the sheer scope of work to be done: a property-wide upgrade for the electrical and plumbing; gutting the kitchen and bathrooms in the main building; rebuilding the pool; adding air conditioning throughout; and upgrading to a high-speed, meshed internet system with satellite. In addition, they transformed a former barn into a private spa: an indulgent oasis featuring a 10-person whirlpool, lounging beds, dry sauna and Turkish steam bath.
Indeed, the price tag for those extensive, high-end renovations 鈥 approximately $2.5 million 鈥 far exceeds that of many hopeful property owners in Italy, such as the popular one euro home schemes that a number of small villages across the country have launched in recent years in an effort to reinvigorate the local economy.
But Lewis and Scali take deep pride in the fact that they never considered securing investors. 鈥淏ecause this was our project, this was our house where we are going to retire, having investors would have complicated that,鈥 Scali explains. 鈥淚 was so committed to it, I divested a lot of my interest in the firm and used that as seed money.鈥
The couple hired a prominent architect from Florence, Massimo Pierattelli, to bring their vision 鈥 鈥渒eep the original Tuscan charm of the place, yet modernize it鈥濃 to life, as well as a contractor and crew, Scali said. But they remained firmly hands-on, making sure one of them was on site throughout the process to ensure that everything stayed on track.
Having renovated three other properties together in Los Angeles, Scali and Lewis were no strangers to the stresses of the task ahead. However, navigating the cultural differences added another unique challenge to the extensive renovation.
The couple quickly learned firsthand the Italian cultural concept of 鈥減iano, piano,鈥 which, as Scali explains, means 鈥渟tep by step, and it really, really is the lifestyle. Nobody is rushed to do anything. The only thing that rushes them is pressure, but only if the pressure feels justified.鈥
Scali and Lewis also had to adjust both their expectations and their 鈥淎merican, particularly Californian, thinking and mindset,鈥 Scali says.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 interesting here is nobody accepts responsibility for anything, and they won鈥檛, and if you try to imply or expressly say how they messed up, which is what you do as a lawyer 鈥 like, 鈥榯hese are the facts, this is the law, and this is how you broke it,鈥欌 he says. 鈥淪o we came into it with that mindset with our contractor, and he immediately shut down. He was like, 鈥榊ou guys are jerks, I don鈥檛 want to deal with you.鈥
At that point, one of their longtime Italian friends, Francesco Goracci, who they eventually decided to bring on as property manager and organizer of guest activities, stepped in as an intermediary to communicate with the contractor, which smoothed things over.
Lewis also notes that there was an initial learning curve for workers around just how exacting their standards were. He recalls one particular example, which now makes him chuckle, when workers dropped and broke a double sink for the bathroom in the office/extra guest suite, and months later installed a replacement sink that had one of the drains in the front, the other in the back.
鈥淎nd I said 鈥榥o, this is not ok,鈥 and we had to start this whole process over,鈥 he says. 鈥淭here were a lot of little things like that, where doors would hit the floor and not open all the way, and we constantly said, 鈥淲e do not expect our guests to have to deal with struggling to open the door.鈥欌
But by the end of the project about a year and a half later, 鈥渢he workers were so proud of seeing it come together from what they had done,鈥 Lewis says. 鈥淚n the end, a light switch might not be totally straight, and I wouldn鈥檛 even have to tell them.鈥
Throughout the process, the couple never strayed from a firm commitment to source as much as they could locally, from the artwork on the walls (which is all for sale), to handcrafted wood furniture right down to light fixtures in the bathrooms.
鈥淚f we couldn鈥檛 find something, we had it made locally,鈥 Lewis says. 鈥淭here were only a tiny handful of things we had shipped from the US.鈥
In addition to preserving the property鈥檚 traditional Tuscan design ethos, their commitment to sourcing locally 鈥 as well as the fact that both speak Italian 鈥 also helped the couple integrate well into the local community.
鈥淭here鈥檚 a man who owns an art gallery and other businesses in Castellina who was telling me how upsetting it is for people in the local community that there are foreigners throughout Tuscany who have bought places, and metaphorically helicopter in and out, but have no connection to what鈥檚 around them,鈥 Lewis explains.
By contrast, the connections he and Scali have made help create an unforgettable experience for their guests, whether it鈥檚 a local wine tasting or al fresco lunch in town.
鈥淸Locals] view our guests as our friends or our family, and they treat them that way,鈥 Lewis says. 鈥淭he degree to which people we made these connections with are so open to our guests has really touched me. It鈥檚 also shown me that I鈥檓 not just imagining how close we are with them, because they extend that to others.鈥
To be clear, a stay at Villa Ardore is a bucket-list experience for many. Rates vary but generally start at around $6,900 per night for the entire property, which sleeps up to 18 guests, and go up for custom packages such as cultural and architecture-based trips or 鈥淟a Dolce Vita,鈥 a painstakingly curated itinerary for hardcore car enthusiasts. It鈥檚 also bookable for weddings or small corporate retreats, and Goracci says he can create itineraries and activities suited to guests鈥 every whim, whether that鈥檚 a pizza-making class at the property鈥檚 outdoor patio to a driving tour of the Chianti鈥檚 rolling hills in a vintage Fiat 500.
Seeing their shared dream come to life is often surreal for Lewis and Scali, both of whom grew up in families that sometimes struggled to make ends meet. 鈥淢y mother was on food stamps for a while, working a third shift at a factory, [and] Chris鈥 background is not exactly the same, but similar,鈥 Lewis says. 鈥淢y life could have been very different.鈥
He recalls one particular pinch-me moment during the summer while the couple was getting ready for bed one evening after the finishing touches were finally in place and their first guests had just left.
鈥淚 was looking around, and I said, 鈥榃e鈥檙e living somebody else鈥檚 life,鈥欌 Lewis says. 鈥淲e have this wonderful home in L.A., we have this amazing villa in an amazing place, with people around us who love us. How did this happen?鈥
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