Description
Rif: Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana - The Palace was built by Gian Giacomo Plantery for Baldassarre Saluzzo di Paesana between 1715 and 1722. It is the largest, most elaborate Palace in the city and integrates decorative requirements, representative functions and rational exploitation of the parts that were leased. The side looking onto Via del Carmine housed the servants’ quarters and stables. The Palace is looking onto a great courtyard of honor. In this part of the building, where the luxury apartments were leased, all the canonical are doubled with two entrances, two staircases of honor and two counterpoised loggias. The atrium is covered by a typical sail vault with lunettes which rests exclusively on the structures of the perimeter. The two great halls served as courtly vestibules for each pair of apartments. The Master Apartment of the Saluzzo family, which still conserves XVIII century furniture and decoration, including the door cases and the vaults painted by Domenico Guidobono, is now home of prestigious events. The apartment consists of an area of ??560 square meters divided into the following main areas: - Hallway (3.70x3.00) and Atrium (7.50x7.20): environment of access to the Apartment, once a cabinet de toilette of the Countess of Paesana communicates with the atrium of the distribution of the Apartment, originally the bedroom of Countess of Paesana painted with the "Judgment of Paris" - Sala dei Busti (7.50x7.50): large living room monumental appearance, which separated the female from the main apartment, remodeled in the late nineteenth to Following the return of the ancient title of the Marquis of Saluzzo took place in 1879 and dominated by the fresco depicting the Fama crowned by Time - Chamber of Parade (7.50x7.50): one room not to have undergone substantial changes over the centuries. The environment, which is the most gorgeous interior of the palace is decorated by three and a fresco panel over the whole time, the artist's masterpieces D. Guidobono - Council Room (7.50x5.50): one room to have preserved the rich eighteenth-century furniture, the room was used for several moments of privacy of the owners. - Hall of Safe (3.60x4.40) and Library (3.60x4.40): the private spaces of Count Baldassarre, the only survivors of their kind to have retained traces decorative concerning their ancient function. - Living room yellow (7.50x4.70): once separated into two private spaces dedicated to the Countess of Paesana, is now used as a representative office - Private Sale (4.90x7.60): once private rooms, now used to house the suppliers of catering services.
For more information:
GIEFFE PATRIMONI Real Estate Advisor, Turin - London.
(+39) 011 / 76.000.11
