This industrial style renovation has been carried out by designer Paola Navone, who transformed a 200-year-old factory into an inviting home in the ancient town of Spello, in east central Umbria, Italy. The designer was given a brief to turn an abandoned tobacco-drying plant that started life almost two centuries ago as a silkworm farm into a cosseting, appealing home.

{Photo Above} In the seating area, a trolley found at a flea market functions as the coffee table alongside an expansive Navone–designed sofa for Linteloo. Custom pendants by photographer Mark Eden Schooley hang above the dining table.

Visitors pass by a sentry wall of lamps from Design House Stockholm on their way to the airy living-dining room with its 52 windows.

Andrea Falkner-Campi and her husband commissioned designer Paola Navone to renovate an old tobacco factory in Spello, Italy.

For the floors in the kitchen and throughout, Navone placed hexagonal Carocim tiles of her own design.

A carpet of custom Moroccan tiles created by Navone from Carocim punctuates a corridor on the first floor.

Huge swaths of Indian cotton drape the vintage iron-framed bed and closet in the master bedroom. The double-height cabinets hold the residents’ clothing.

A freestanding tub from the Water Monopoly.

In the shower: custom Carocim tile, created in Morocco.

The upper level of the 5,300-square-foot space is accessed via a slender stair with reclaimed-wood treads.

In the upper-level seating area, an Ergofocus fireplace is flanked by a pair of leather armchairs designed by Navone for Baxter.

The double-height cabinets hold the residents’ clothing.

Photos: Wichmann + Bendtsen