IN February, Mr. Lyon and his family moved into a new Italian-style villa in Palm Springs, Calif. "We wanted something we could use year-round," he said.

Litchfield hired the architect A. J. Davis, who designed an asymmetrical, Italian-style villa with a variety of towers, bays and porches.

The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome, Long Island, where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924.

Back in the kitchen, her brother Ficre described his love for Asmara, which he called "a magical city, shimmering in pastels, with white boulevards, Italian-style villas and palm trees."

At 6:30 Wednesday morning, the doorbell rang at George Hincapie's Italian-style villa here.

Woods Hole has been a vacation destination since the mid-1800's; the property that went for $10 million last year was a 70-year-old Italian-style villa on exclusive Penzance Point.

An Italian-style villa was built in 1850 on the south corner of Cross Street (number 11), which was later used as a County Court office from the 1940s.

In 1908 Twain purchased some 200 acres in Redding and commissioned an architect to design and build an Italian-style villa on a hilltop on the property.

He and his wife, Claire, and their six children - including two adopted daughters - live in a palatial Italian-style villa in Westin, Fla., near Ft.

The next, you are taking people through an Italian-style villa with 21 colors of marble in the dining-room floor.