Villa Marmont, the private residence designed by Gio Ponti is on sale

In 1943 Gio Ponti, at the height of his career, designed a private villa in Cervignano d’Adda, commissioned by Viscount Franco Marmont du Haut Champ, for whom the architect had already designed the better known Casa Marmont apartment building in Via Gustavo Modena in Milan.

The Viscount – managing director of the Compagnia Fiduciaria Nazionale and president of the Ferrania Company - expressed to Ponti his desire for a farmhouse to be built on land he owned. With its 250 square meters of floor space, Villa Marmont is designed as a single building that comprises two dwellings: a manor house and, to the side, the residence initially intended for the “colonist”, currently the residence of the villa’s caretakers.

During the Second World War, the villa hosted the most influential artists, such as Giorgio De Chirico, Marino Marini, Massimo Campigli, Umberto Boccioni, and many other big names. Some of these artists created their own frescoes in the country residence, housed in internal niches designed by Ponti but then removed in the 1970s to save them from decay.

It is a single-storey building, built entirely of continuous brickwork and characterized by a flat roof, except for the volumes dedicated to the farmer’s house, defined volumetrically by a pitched roof with a brick tile covering. The manor house opens up towards the large surrounding garden through a patio towards the Muzza canal.

The sale price for the entire property is 1,280,000 euros.