When designer Collette Dinnigan, her husband Bradley Cocks and children Estella and Hunter took off for a year’s sabbatical to enjoy the Italian bella vita in 2016, making the country their second home was the last thing they imagined doing. “At the time it was just a really big adventure,” says Dinnigan as she bustles around the generously proportioned kitchen in Casa Olivetta, the 500-year-old farmhouse the couple have spent four years renovating in the Puglian region of Ostuni, about an hour’s drive from either Bari or Brindisi.