Casa Panzini

Casa Panzini is a square, two-storey house with a basement, built in the early years of the last century. Its design follows the typical model of a prosperous, closed little villa of that period: simple in structure, with plain rendered façades, one side, facing the sea and railway, is now entirely stripped of its plaster. Four shuttered windows per side, and a low socle tracing the basement line, are all that break the surface. Around the building run bands of moulded, relief-worked terracotta: a string course, and another below the slight overhang of the cornice.

Set into the lower masonry are ceramic basins and tiles inscribed with the titles of Panzini’s works. Inside, the same titles reappear in a decorative band high up in the ground-floor salon. Every room has vivid floral paintings, typical of early 20th-century taste: geometric ochre and red panels on the walls, landscape scenes on the boarded ceilings. The staircase is painted with Liberty-style floral motifs. The bathrooms retain their white ceramic tiles and original sanitary fittings. Outside, a park of poplars and a few outbuildings complete the property.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.