Villa Orizzonte
The plains’ landscape, marked by fields and embankments, is the horizon into which a family villa is set. Two Holland elm trees, ‘Jacqueline Hillier,’ welcome visitors at the entrance: irregular yet sculptural trees, similar yet distinct, seemingly leaning toward those approaching the villa. One emerges from a sinuous osmanthus hedge, while the other stands against the white house wall. Their small, dark, rounded leaves offer visual relief after crossing the path of bright, cut, and angular gravel.
Inside, the garden runs parallel to the swimming pool, reaching a large holm oak that shades the solarium and reflects in the water. Between the pool and the house, a courtyard hosts two maples and a lounge facing the linear landscape, while the wide bedroom windows overlook dogwoods: greenery becomes the fourth wall of each space.
Around the house, at a higher elevation than the countryside, shrub masses weave together leaves of diverse shapes and green shades, marked by occasional white veins or tiny white inflorescences. This dense, rich thicket gradually thins into an english lawn as it approaches the embankment and its riparian vegetation. Frassinago has designed a garden that grows in parallel with the villa’s horizontality, the embankment, and the plains.
