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#VoguePostcard: Angela Missoni’s Varese, Italy
Varese is, in a way, my home town. It is the closest city to Sumirago, where my parents decided to live and work in the late ’60s. It’s where I grew up. All my family lives in this area. The countryside is lush and green extending to the pre-Alps. The sight of the spectacular Monte Rosa gives me such joy every morning.
Varese is known as the ‘garden city’ because of its natural beauty. It’s also known for archaeological sites and museum-villas. I like to go into Varese to relax. Here are some of my favourites:
STAY: To visit the city and its landscapes sleep at Locanda Dei Mai Intees, a 15th-century villa in the medieval town of Azzate, a charming hideaway with easy access to Milano, Como and Lugano.
EAT: In the evening, Teatro restaurant can spoil you with a nice ambience and refined food.
BUY: Walk through the old shops, like Drogheria Vercellini, dated 1860, where I buy candied fruits and unique artisanal local products. I can never resist Pasticceria Ghezzi, for its home-made marrons glacés, when in season.
SEE: For world-class contemporary art and architecture, do not miss Village Collezione Panza and its gardens, where you can also find Luce, a lovely restaurant that we love for Sunday brunch. On sunny days, wa
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If the number of chairs is the social measure of a household, then Angela Missoni’s vast modernist home, hidden in a hamlet near the fashion dynasty’s base in Sumirago, Lombardy, is a bohemian party waiting to happen. There are mid-century modern affairs, acid-bright floral studio chairs, antique toddler-sized armchairs as well as dozens of multicoloured woven plastic seats to accommodate four generations of family guests – much of it flea-market booty.
“I really don’t like parties where you have to stand up all the time,” reveals the Missoni president and creative director, family matriarch, “obsessive collector” and meticulous curator of everything. “I’m very strong on party logistics. I have a mathematician’s brain. Every aspect of the house, the architecture, every detail, every space, every drawer in the kitchen is all my design.”
Of course, the 58-year-old mastermind of seating arrangements rarely sits down herself. Today is Missoni’s practice run for the family’s Christmas dinner. In line with her idiosyncratic style, the glass-walled dining room is full of warmth and wit, with 14 green restaurant-style chairs around a table dressed in an intricate riot of porcelain figurines and birds of paradise in crystal vases. The adjacent indoor swimming pool is encircled by a t
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