Every facade of Villa Orlandi tells a different story: the decorations and graffito work change on each of the building’s four sides, a small Art Nouveau game that invites you to walk around it more than once to catch every nuance.
Built in the final phase of the Art Nouveau season in Brunate, the villa stands on via Pissarottino, one of the village’s streets richest in period architecture, whose name comes from a small spring encountered further along the path. This very stretch of road offers one of the finest views over Brunate: the first basin of Lake Como, Villa d’Este, Villa Erba and the profile of Monte Rosa form the backdrop to a walk best taken slowly, with eyes raised toward the facades as much as toward the panorama.
Villa Orlandi is an almost obligatory stop for anyone following the Art Nouveau villa trail in Brunate, together with nearby Villa Marinoni: two examples of how, in this corner of the village, architectural decoration became a true narrative language.