Villa Necchi Campiglio
Rationalist 1930s villa with a walled garden, heated pool and a house museum of period art.
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This guide to Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan opens with a foggy night outside La Scala, when industrialist Angelo Campiglio, his wife Gigina Necchi and her sister Nedda decided the family needed a house of its own, hidden behind its own garden. It follows the Necchi sewing-machine fortune into architect Piero Portaluppi's radically modern 1930s design, from a painted zodiac ceiling to Milan's first private heated pool, and then to a second architect, Tomaso Buzzi, brought in only a few years later to soften those sharp rational lines with tapestries and antique furniture. Best heard standing by the pool, where Portaluppi's original vision is easiest to picture.
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