The Milanese architect designed Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan with meticulous attention to detail and complete design autonomy, creating a luxurious residential complex including, besides the main villa and garden, the gatehouse, the greenhouse, the garage, the swimming pool, and the tennis court.
What most contributes to making Villa Necchi Campiglio an extraordinary episode in the history of Lombard architecture is the consistent harmony that seamlessly links the building’s construction details with the garden’s architectural elements and the smallest decorative details of the interiors: from the ceiling moldings to the tennis court fence to the radiator covers.
This privileged glimpse of life is still faithfully testified by the house on via Mozart, both in its intact architectural structure and in the history of its furnishings, collections, and everyday objects, remarkably preserved and untouched by generational changes.
Two important donations further enrich the visit: the early twentieth-century art collection of Claudia Gian Ferrari and the eighteenth-century paintings and decorative arts collection of Alighiero and Emilietta de’ Micheli. The richness and quality of the artworks housed in the villa make it a true decorative arts museum: consider the substantial core of French Louis XV furniture, nineteenth-century English silverware, Brussels tapestries, and numerous objects of oriental art in bronze and porcelain.
To this day, everything in the house remains as its inhabitants wanted and left it: alongside the architecture and furnishings, everyday objects play a crucial role in preserving, nearly seventy years later, the homey atmosphere of the house.
