Ireland

Luxury is not a synonym for expensive, but for sacred meanings and harmonies, sense of reverence for universal beauty. Not a synonym for perfection, but for making the elusive a perceivable sublime.

Thomas Allocca

The first treehouse that I built was in Ireland, upon a 300 years-old ash of Paddy Fogarty, in the village Ballinderry, on Lake Derg, Tipperary County. It was just a terrace, built using waste timber from a building site where I was working for the architect Antony John Murphy of Thurles, but upon that majestic tree, at four meters above the ground level, the sunset was different, the landscape was different, and the effect was exactly the experience of a resort. Intimacy with the tree and the surrounding forest. I was there every night, at the sunset, for months, and after a couple of weeks two giant crows started to stay with me, without any fear. It was just an experiment for fun, but it was the lesson I needed for learning the meaning of "resort" as architecture that makes possible an intimate dialogue with Nature, speaking arboreal language, whispered, not aloud.

After the irish experience I started to design tree-terraces for luxury gardens, tree-houses, tree-resorts, for the Scottish Treehouse Company, for private clients, for prestigious clients such as Umberta Beretta of the Beretta's firearms industries, and for princely families such as Prince Alexander von Liechtenstein and Princess Astrid Kohl, Prince and Duke Sigieri Diaz Della Vittoria Pallavicini of Italy.