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Villa Scott
The Villa Scott is a historic house located in a prestigious hillside location in the Cavoretto district in the larger Borgo Crimea (or Borgo Po) east of central Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Built in 1902, it is considered to be a masterful example of Art Nouveau, Liberty Style architecture in Turin, one of the major works of the architect, engineer, and businessman Pietro Fenoglio. History The urbanization of the hillside on which the villa sits was developed during the last years of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, and is noted for its numerous villas for the upper class and bourgeoisie. The villa was built for Alfonso Scott, an executive with the nascent auto company Società Torinese Automobili Rapid, S.T.A.R. (Società Torinese d'Automobili "Rapid"), by the architect Pietro Fenoglio, who sat on the board of S.T.A.R., in collaboration with fellow engineer :it:Guttardo Gussoni, Guttardo Gussoni. Upon Scott's death, his heirs ceded the property to the Sisters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. They gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the early modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most surviving villas have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside. Roman Roman villas included: * the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
