Louise creates the first architecture: three cubes arranged in a checkerboard pattern, repeating the slope of Montemarcello. Subsequently, he divided it into separate apartments and built another brutalist housea little higher, around three trees, and “unfinished”, an outbuilding so named because it was not until years later that he found the inspiration to complete it while visiting the Stirling Library in London. Here is the magic. Walls that play with perspective sections, large projecting windows who make nature touch the heart, console interior AND custom-made furniture really simple, feature rich and elegant.
Above is a forest, below he creates gardens, which the precious signora Delia still tends to. “My grandmother designed function spacesnever again, and only local materials were used: the windows are designed one from the other, there marine elementslike teak, cheap at the time, and blue handmade tiles company, unfortunately closed,” continues Maddalena, the summer of childhood in this “a place of protected freedom”but then life in Milan, almost ten years as head of the Sozzani Foundation, until, thanks to a newborn, a pandemic – and the passion of his partner – he felt that he belonged here.
Gray house, the second building, made in a brutal style, where Luisa Castiglioni and Hans Deichmann lived. Large terraces overlooking the greenery and the sea. Over the years, nature “joined” the artificial environment, becoming unique.Martina Lucatelli style. Photo De Pasquale + Muffini
“We called him Boccamonte, we repair it and, together with the agronomist, plant new flowers, vegetables and fruit trees. We salute those who can appreciate his soul. This is an experiment, but today this heritage can be made modern.“. In the woods, where Deichman hid a chair every morning to read the newspaper, everything is connected by a long staircase with red railings and is a common thread.