This wonderful country house is a sample of a time and a lifestyle that has remained intact over time. It is the architectural and stylistic story of a mile of interwar. Rico, carefree, then bombarded and tired, get up again and return to splendor and fun, between pool parties with Negroni and card games in the smoke. Villa Necchi Campiglio is a unique work of Piero Portaluppi, designed between 1932 and 1935. It is about A luxurious country house with garden but inside the citywith endless sequences of rooms, halls, bathrooms and a magnificent veranda, a huge garden and even a pool (the first private of the city at that time). Custody important works of art (there is no less than three donated collections), and after the death of the last owner, who donated it to the FAI (Italian ambient fund) in 2001, the town was subjected to important restoration works until it finally opened to the public in 2008. Today we tell you what the Villa Necchi Campiglio is like through the video tour that you can find in the Instagram profile of Instagram of AD Italy. Enjoy the movie, but before we tell you 5 curiosities about this masterpiece of Italian architecture.
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1. Nene, Gigina, Nedda and the Milanese fog
The town was commissioned to Portaluppi in 1932 by the doctor-company Angelo Campiglio, known as Nene, and the Necchi sisters: Gigina, Angelo's wife, and her sister Nedda (who is single lives with them). Original from Pavia, the sisters own a large iron foundry factory called Neca; Vittorio Necchi, his brother, owns the company of the famous Necchi sewing machines, one of the icons of the Italian economic boom after World War II, present in all homes as a symbol of well -being. Campiglio marriage, attracted by the social and cultural life of the city, decided to move to Milan in the early thirties. It is said that one night, when they went back to Pavia after attending a presentation at the Scala, They were lost in the Milanese fog and stopping the car glimpsed among the trees of a garden a «sell» sign With a phone number. The next day, Angelo bought a part of the garden and commissioned Portaluppi with the design of the residence: this was born Villa Necchi Campiglio, where the owners would spend the rest of their long life. A golden existence, free of financial concernsdistributed between rooms, parties in the countryside and trips in Europe aboard its Isotta Frascchini. They also traveled to the Middle East and Eastern East, of which they are great fans. And of course they practiced all kinds of sport: skiing, swimming, tennis and even fishing.
2. Portaluppi: the architect-humorist
His name is Piero Portaluppi, and in those years he was the most requested architect of the moment. He was a professor of the Polytechnic of Milan and a consecrated designer of Live Creativity and Innate Elegance. Between the 20s and 30s, We find in its architecture a mixture of neoclassical elements, Decofuturists and secessionists. Throughout his incredible career he worked for the most important customers of Lombard business and in the restoration of the main monuments of Milan, and also tried luck as humorous and satirical caricaturist, publishing vignettes in several magazines (Il Baubau, To quel paese and the Guerin Meschino). In addition, he was a great fan of astronomy.
3. The room that dialogues with nature
The sculpture of Adolfo Wildt of 1930, El Crazy Pure, of the Gian Ferrari collection, has been considered as the artist's spiritual will: Parsifal fighting against evil, represented by the snake crushed under the chalice of the Holy Grail.Courtesy of Fai-Fondo / L'alaliano Environment.
«The modern house is a frame of windows; cult, care and precision in the improvement of each of them have made the house a precious box.»
«Portaluppi.»
The architect openly declares his great attention to sale. And the veranda of Villa Necchi Campiglio demonstrates it perfectly: projected almost entirely towards the outer space, it opens to the garden through these glass walls and of a large horizontal window that acts as a meeting point between the interior and the outside. This room is an elegant winter garden, an urban jungle in which green is the protagonist: the sage of the walls, the red marbles and Patrizia del Soil, the upholstery of the sofa in the form of «s». And then exotic plants, of course, that almost mix with the trees outside. In a brilliant and innovative work.
4. The heated pool and other technological innovations
The pool. The collaboration of Tomaso Buzzi with the Necchi Campiglio family is also reflected in some areas of the garden. In fact, the architect designed the area that surrounds the pool, creating a wall that separates the tennis track and drawing a wavy route with niches and arched openings.FAI-FONDO / L'Enalaliano Environment.