Advertising prospectus from the 60s

Fondo Vincenzo Vicari, Archivio storico della Città di Lugano – www.archiviostoricolugano.ch

The house has belonged to the Casellini family for many generations.

For a long time, as can be seen from the advertising, it was used as a private art gallery.

Inside, on the first floor, the rooms used as kitchen and sitting room display coffered ceilings and stuccoed fireplaces of note. The façade incorporates significantly large windows surrounded by stark stone frames surmounted by architraves facing the lake supported by ledges. The inscription SOLI DEO/HONORE ET GLORIA (All honour and glory to God) is visible on the lower-window architraves

On the ground floor, under the wide portico, two portals marked off by pointed arches lead to rooms whence the stairs take one to the upper floors. The shape, proportions and stone working enable us to place them in the late medieval period.

The 60's facade

Facade relief

The current façade

The section

1st floor plan with coffered ceilings