The De Villa family always showed a particular attention in being up to date: in 1732 they asked Filippo Juvarra – the Royal First Architect – to rebuild their castle in Villastellone as a modern villa. Juvarra designed also a garden in the French style related to one of the not built versions of the project. Other drawings concerning a parterre and a kitchen garden show other formal solutions conceived around and after the half of the XVIIIth century. Within the papers kept in the archive of the De Villa’s noble family another drawing, signed by the gardener Guglielmo Gullini in 1784, witnesses the spread of the new idea of picturesque / anglo-chinese garden outside Great Britain and France in that period, thanks to books like Le jardin anglo-chinois by Louis Le Rouge. A typical balance of formal and picturesque elements was the key of the whole garden: a big parterre without broderies, a “chinese pavilion”, straight avenues and curved paths. Maybe it was never built, because – according to a cadastral map – a great landscape park already existed in 1804. Local and oral tradition fixed in John Wallace, a Scottish gardener (or his son) operating also in other areas of Piedmont, the author of this project. In this new idea of park the baroque chapel – kept in the drawing by Gullini as it was – becomes a classical temple at the end of a view. The area of the park existed since the XVIIIth century, called “Great wood”: Wallace designed his garden inserting in his conceiving the natural resources of the property, being more “picturescque” close to the villa and more in the mood of Capability Brown all around.

Anticipazioni del gusto. Il giardino anglo-cinese dei De Villa a Villastellone, 1784 / Cornaglia, Paolo - In: Il risveglio del giardino. Dall'hortus al paesaggio, studi, esperienze, confronti. / Cornaglia P., Giusti M.A.. - STAMPA. - Lucca : Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2015. - ISBN 9788865504802. - pp. 101-113

Anticipazioni del gusto. Il giardino anglo-cinese dei De Villa a Villastellone, 1784

CORNAGLIA, Paolo
2015

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The De Villa family always showed a particular attention in being up to date: in 1732 they asked Filippo Juvarra – the Royal First Architect – to rebuild their castle in Villastellone as a modern villa. Juvarra designed also a garden in the French style related to one of the not built versions of the project. Other drawings concerning a parterre and a kitchen garden show other formal solutions conceived around and after the half of the XVIIIth century. Within the papers kept in the archive of the De Villa’s noble family another drawing, signed by the gardener Guglielmo Gullini in 1784, witnesses the spread of the new idea of picturesque / anglo-chinese garden outside Great Britain and France in that period, thanks to books like Le jardin anglo-chinois by Louis Le Rouge. A typical balance of formal and picturesque elements was the key of the whole garden: a big parterre without broderies, a “chinese pavilion”, straight avenues and curved paths. Maybe it was never built, because – according to a cadastral map – a great landscape park already existed in 1804. Local and oral tradition fixed in John Wallace, a Scottish gardener (or his son) operating also in other areas of Piedmont, the author of this project. In this new idea of park the baroque chapel – kept in the drawing by Gullini as it was – becomes a classical temple at the end of a view. The area of the park existed since the XVIIIth century, called “Great wood”: Wallace designed his garden inserting in his conceiving the natural resources of the property, being more “picturescque” close to the villa and more in the mood of Capability Brown all around.
2015
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Il risveglio del giardino. Dall'hortus al paesaggio, studi, esperienze, confronti.
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