![]() ![]() THOUGH SKILLED AT creating sumptuous movie sets, the director is neither a trained architect nor an interior designer. Guadagnino started with a psychologically detailed questionnaire: What colors do they like? What time of the day do they prefer? How do they see themselves in a room? Answers in hand - bright jewel tones, mornings, playing board games with their 7-year-old daughter, Margherita - the director began composing a storyboard in the form of a workbook, a thick volume that encompassed a minutely detailed inventory of the exemplary collection of 20th-century furniture that Marchetti had been amassing for years. Inside, the couple sought a harmonious retreat. “In cinema, you are an impostor, in a way, because you can always edit afterward and change the story. “Space is the most important thing that comes to my mind when I analyze things,” Guadagnino says. Marchetti and Olsen had long been friends with the director, whose densely atmospheric film sets are memorable for their layered, subtle details: a barely seen armoire full of linen in 2009’s “ I Am Love ” an actual notarized land deed used instead of a facsimile for 2017’s “Call Me by Your Name.” Guadagnino often films his movies in aristocratic villas or Art Deco-era wonders little known outside of Italy - environments are as critical to his vision as actors or scripts. “I’m a little bit irrational,” he admits. Despite being in preproduction for his next project - a reimagining of the director Dario Argento’s 1970s Italian cult horror classic “ Suspiria,” to be released in November - Guadagnino immediately agreed. Marchetti knew of that dream from an interview that Guadagnino, 47, once gave while Marchetti was visiting him on the set of “ Call Me by Your Name” in 2016, he proposed that they collaborate on the house with the architect Giulio Ghirardi. In this they had an unusual collaborator: Luca Guadagnino, the Italian filmmaker, who had always wanted to be an interior designer. For the past four years, he and his partner, the British journalist Kerry Olsen, 41, have devoted themselves to constructing this privately opulent weekend refuge on a stretch of lakeshore best known for the palaces of American movie stars and Russian oligarchs. “We felt it was more interesting having something beautiful inside that nobody knows,” says Federico Marchetti, 49, the Milan-based entrepreneur behind the Yoox Net-a-Porter online retail empire. Only a small nameplate - that says simply “housekeeper”- hints at the place’s current residential use. This is La Filanda (the Mill), the name a nod to the 9,600-square-foot building’s original 19th-century function as a silk-weaving factory. ![]() ![]() Then, on your left, you’ll see the stucco facade of an apparently anonymous edifice - an ocher two-story rectangle overlooking a simple walled garden and lawn, the lake just beyond them. FIRST, CUT SHARPLY off a two-lane road leading around Italy’s Lake Como and dodge the local stray cats until you hit a cobbled lane lined with scruffy mulberry trees. ![]()
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