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…………………….In a word……..PARADISE!!!!!……..Twice a year for 19 years I would go to this villa located in PRAIANO, ITALY….to work with Andrea Pfister and Phyllis Footer, [NO PUN INTENDED] who worked for the AK licensee,  on the Anne Klein Couture Shoe Collection……..Andrea was a BRILLANT shoe designer, who had stores in Milan, Paris and London….and I was lucky enough to collaborate with him on the AK shoe collection for so many years….We were great friends. He and Jean Pierre were our best men at our wedding in Las Vegas!………Praiano is the next town south of the famous Positano. A 10 to 15 minute ride without the infamous traffic…. Andrea Pfister and his business partner, and partner in life, Jean Pierre Dupre owned the villa, which they totally renovated!….Andrea spent eight months out of the year working from the villa, while Jean Pierre traveled back and forth to just outside of Milan where their second home and factory was……Every weekend JP [as we called him], put the shoe samples Andrea had detailed at the villa, into work in the factory….They were together for 50 years!…..When they decided to retire they had to sell the villa….it was just too expensive to keep up…….I hadn’t known what happened to it, or who bought it until a mutual friend told me it was purchased by a luxury villa rental company……They named it “VILLA LILY, because they installed a lily pond with Koi fish and a waterfall? Basically they left the entire villa as it was except they did add bedrooms and a spa area [photo second in at bottom right]……on the other side of the ancient tower, [center top photo of the tower] that Andrea had already converted in a bedroom on the second floor of the tower, and a bathroom on the first…..connected by a spiral staircase…..The studio where we worked was located on the second floor…..In the photo at the upper left you can see three arch windows…..That was the studio. What surprised me was the main terrace was exactly the same with the same black and glass dining table and chairs…….and the pool area looks the same, and has the same lounge chairs and umbrellas! My bathroom [second photo up from bottom right with black and white tiles] is exactly the same…….I was really happy to see so much is the same!…..Even the living room/indoor dining, with the fireplace, looks the same with the all white furniture. I believe the villa has 9 bedrooms now and would be perfect for 3 or 4 couples to rent……There is a cook and maids to do whatever you need……….You can GOOGLE…….VILA LILY, PRAINO ITALY for the complete video tour. There are 2 or 3 videos………I am happy to see Andrea and Jean Pierre’s villa is living on in all of its’ splendor!!!!….but it also saddens me when I remember all of the great times Jac and I had, the great parties and dinners, and pizza parties made in their own brick ovens……..that they gave at the villa…….Andrea and Jean Pierre are with Jac in Heaven now, and I’m sure they are having a blast waiting for me!