Project Overview: Villa La Pietra is a beautiful historic estate and art museum composed of 5 historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves in Florence, Italy. New York University maintains the estate as it was envisioned by its original owners, the Acton family, and uses the site as the home for its Florence study abroad program. Between the Acton art and artifact collection, The Garden, The Season, the Photographic Archive and their constantly evolving student and faculty projects, there are plenty of featured resources to manage. Our main goal in redesigning the site was to unite all of the different artifacts and bring the pieces together to create a unified, educational, and inspiring experience for their audiences. We accomplished this goal through a components-based system in WordPress and a color coding scheme that allows a user to quickly filter through their extensive database of visual content.
