The Rectangular Room

The refurbishment of some parts of the villa carried out in the mid-1980s reflects the tastes of Pietro Accorsi, the well-known Turin antique dealer. An example is provided by the rectangular sitting room, which combines with the adjoining circular drawing room to reiterate one of the settings created first by Accorsi and then by Ometto in the house and museum on Via Po in Turin, now the Fondazione Accorsi-Ometto. The fabrics, wallpaper, woodwork and arched dividing element in this Louis XVI sitting room appear to be repeated in the villa. The uniformity of taste that characterises the Accorsi setting, however, gives way to the variety of styles and to the extraordinary quality typical of the Cerruti Collection.