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The Kaffeehaus is one of the most interesting buildings inside the Boboli Gardens and is also one of the works carried out at the wishes of Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine, between 1774 and 1785. It is an airy pavilion, circular in shape and with an onion-shaped dome top. It is divided over three separate levels, beautifully inserted in a complex of small gardens and orchards. The interior is divided over four main levels and side mezzanine floors with triangular stairs.
Between 1775 and 1776, the interiors were decorated on the main floor by three artists who were well known in Florence at the time: Giuseppe del Moro, Giuliano Traballesi, and Pasquale Micheli. The decorations in the central room on the main floor blend harmoniously with the late rococo style of the building: green woods can be seen in perspective behind fountains with cupids, in homage to nature and to the garden sculptures, repeated in the berceau dome, where climbing flowers, birds and water springs, shown through the links in a mesh, simulating a pretty aviary.
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