Description
Villa Palladio stands in a dominant position over Rome, in Via della Camilluccia. A particularly exclusive and quiet corner of the city.
The Villa, of great impact and superb architecture, dates back to the late 1950s and is immersed in a predominantly flat garden of exquisitely romantic taste with fountains, water features and colonnades. The elegant and majestic villa is mainly divided into three levels above ground. The master area is accessed both from the large external door and from the garden onto an important hall with fireplace, next to which is its dining room and a library study in precious cherry wood. The garden level also houses the guest apartment.
On the upper floor is the large master sleeping area with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living rooms each serving the bedroom and generous walk-in closets in fine woods. Each bedroom has access to the private terrace. The floor is also served by an office connected to the kitchen by an internal dumbwaiter.
The service area, in the basement, is of considerable size and includes, in addition to various rooms used by the staff, a very large kitchen, various dedicated offices, the ironing area and access to a very special cellar. In the garden there is also a generously sized swimming pool with a relaxation area next to it.
The Villa: A living homage to the past, capable of preserving the charm of an era now distant.
The architectural project was entrusted to the Archistar Tomaso Buzzi
A figure of great humanistic and literary culture, he distinguished himself as one of the main designers of the Italian twentieth century, a garden architect, restorer and inventor, as well as an interior designer of important noble palaces. He was a professor of Life Drawing and Interior Design at the Milan Polytechnic, which he shared with Gio Ponti. He had very close relations with the Novecento Milanese group (Muzio, Cabiati, De Finetti) and soon began a long and fruitful collaboration with Giò Ponti, which extended from architecture to urban planning, design, to participation with articles and contributions in the pages of “Domus”, the prestigious magazine founded in 1928 by Ponti himself. Buzzi was one of the protagonists of the most important artistic events of those years (as a founding member of the Club degli Urbanisti he participated for example in the famous competition for the urban planning of Milan with the project Forma urbis Mediolani); he had prominent organizational roles in national and international events on applied arts (Milan Triennale, Enapi pavilions, Amsterdam International Exhibition, National Sports Exhibition etc.); among the founders of the Labirinto, he held the position of artistic director for Venini in Venice, actively collaborating with Paolo Venini, Pietro Chiesa, Giulio Rosso and the main artists in the field of glass.
