Amber Guinness is well versed in romance. She was born in London, into England’s brewing-and-banking dynasty, but raised in Tuscany. She’s spent much of her 33 years at Arniano, her family’s 18th-century, stone-and-brick Tuscan estate. It’s where she learned to cook by watching her mother, Camilla, an interior designer, experiment in the kitchen.
Five years ago, after decades of splitting her time between England and Italy, she and her husband, the journalist Matthew Bell, moved to Florence full-time. The two met at Guinness’s cousin’s wedding, in 2014. He marched up to her and announced, “You’re the most beautiful woman here, and I’m not leaving until you kiss me.” They married shortly after.
