Sunshine in Tuscany dictates a certain way of life. The warm beams that bake the rolling countryside lend themselves to alfresco dining, winemaking, long walks, and a rusticated style of building that feels at one with the landscape.

It’s no surprise, then, that it was light that first seduced interior designer Sarah Magness when she set foot inside her most recent project, the renovation of an early 19th-century property in Panzano, Italy. “Walking through the main house is truly amazing,” she says. “Every major room faces west so the sunsets are indescribable.”