Stop, breathe, and look back.

Casa Caroseno around the AD world.

There are moments when you need to stop, breathe, and look back.

Now that the low season has arrived, the house has grown quieter, and the days have finally found a slower rhythm, I've had the time to look back at everything that happened over this past season.

I've been revisiting all the articles, features, and photographs of Casa Caroseno published across the international editions of Architectural Digest.

And I still can't quite believe it.

Seeing my face and my brother Giuseppe's, alongside the walls of the house we built with so much sacrifice and dedication, together with our family, appearing on AD's digital pages and Instagram feeds, alongside the work of internationally renowned architects, artists, designers, and some of the world's most beautiful homes, is a feeling I still struggle to put into words.

Behind those photographs are all the decisions we made without really knowing where they would lead us.

And before becoming an architectural project, Casa Caroseno was simply our home. Our grandparents' house, the place of childhood summers and family memories.

Perhaps that's what moves me the most.

The thought that such a personal story, born in a small corner of the Puglian countryside, has managed to cross borders and reach people on the other side of the world.

It all started in Italy, with AD telling the story of our home surrounded by cherry trees and wheat fields. An article about family, memories, and that luxury of simplicity we identify with so deeply. A special thank you to Francesca Longoni for telling our story with such sensitivity.

And then, our story began to travel.

To Germany, where Casa Caroseno was described as a Landhaus-Idylle in Apulien, a countryside idyll in Puglia. And where, much to our surprise, it was also included among Die 15 schönsten Landhäuser der Welt, the 15 most beautiful country houses in the world. To Spain, where the story returned to our roots, to the recuerdos de la infancia, the childhood memories that still live within these walls. And where, to our great surprise, Casa Caroseno was also selected among Las 100 mejores casas de 2025 (the 100 best homes of 2025.

To France, where it became une villa rurale au milieu des cerisiers et des champs de blé. A house surrounded by cherry trees and wheat fields, the very same ones we used to look at as children.

To Spain, where the story returned to our roots, to the recuerdos de la infancia, the childhood memories that still live within these walls.

To Mexico and Latin America, where Casa Caroseno was described as una casa de vacaciones para reiniciarte la vida. A place to start again, slow down, and reconnect with yourself.

And then to the Middle East, where AD told the story of our home through the idea of slow living, a slower way of life shaped by simplicity, traditions, and small everyday rituals.

It's incredible to think how many different languages have told the story of the same little house.

And yet, in every article, I recognise something that belongs to us.

Our grandparents. The countryside. The walls. The summers. The desire to preserve something from the past, without ever stopping imagining the future.

I think that when you're completely immersed in a project, you tend to keep looking ahead. At what's still missing, what could be improved, the next idea, the next season.

You forget to look at everything you've already achieved.

Today, I simply want to look at these articles and think about how far a story has travelled when, for us, it all began with two children playing in the countryside.

Thank you to Opus Atelier, Studio Paz, and everyone who helped bring Casa Caroseno back to life.

Thank you to Dario Borruto, who captured its story so beautifully through his photographs.

Thank you to everyone who chose to listen to and share our story.

And thank you to ourselves and our family, for believing in it even when it seemed impossible.

Thank you, AD World. It's an honour.

With love, from our little Casa in the countryside.