A residence whose story remained in the shadows for decades, like a jewel concealed within the folds of the lake’s landscape.On Pallanza’s distinguished lakefront promenade—known among locals as “the avenue of old gardens”—lies a villa whose history was long familiar only to a narrow circle of people. A home of the Piedmontese elite, connected with prominent names in Italian architecture, landscape design and industrial artistry, it has been one of the most discreet private estates on Lake Maggiore.Today, more than a century after its creation, it opens its story with grace and dignity.At the turn of the 20th century (circa 1900–1905), the lawyer Antonio Casanova chose this site on the Pallanza waterfront with intention. He acquired land previously owned by Enrico Rovelli, one of Verbania’s key landscape masters. Rovelli entered regional history for his collections of camellias and rare plants, which shaped a kind of “green map” of the lakeshore.On this land, Casanova built an elegant villa with eclectic architecture, Tuscan and Corinthian pilasters, strict symmetry and a raised façade oriented toward the lake.From its earliest days, the residence was conceived as a harmonious union of architecture and landscape — its soul and defining principle.In the mid-20th century, the villa acquired a new dimension — refined, cultural, almost museum-like. In 1952, its garden became the subject of a project by Piero Portaluppi, one of Italy’s most respected architects of the century, whose work shaped the architectural identity of Milan’s elite.The Portaluppi Foundation archives record: “Giardino di Villa Casanova Scotti, Verbania, 1952.”Portaluppi transformed the garden into a carefully orchestrated space: diagonals drawn through century-old trees, light filtering beneath magnolias, and sightlines guiding the eye toward the water. This was not mere landscaping — it was spatial direction. The garden became the villa’s second façade, its refined mirror.Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away, one of Italy’s most significant industrial stories was unfolding. In 1919, Alfonso Bialetti opened an aluminum workshop in Crusinallo. A decade later, in 1933, he created the Moka Express — the iconic octagonal coffee maker that gave Italy global leadership in domestic design. It was the first device that allowed people to make “bar-quality coffee at home,” and became one of the major icons of 20th-century industrial design, now displayed in MoMA and the Triennale di Milano.After the war, his son Renato Bialetti continued the legacy — a vivid representative of a new era of Italian entrepreneurship. He introduced the region’s first outdoor advertising billboards dedicated to a household product — a bold, pioneering and completely unprecedented step at that time. This marketing experiment entered history as one of the earliest examples of street advertising in the home-appliance industry, and the Bialetti brand became a global symbol of Italian ingenuity.In regional landscape-protection documents, the name Bialetti appears next to Casanova–Scotti, marking the villa as a historically significant residence. Thus, the estate becomes part of the brand’s heritage — known from Milan to New York.Here, on the lakefront, three great lines of Italian identity intersect:the intellectual refinement of Antonio Casanova,the cultural expressiveness of Portaluppi,and the industrial genius of the Bialetti family.Today, the villa is far more than an elegant residence with a private darsena for a yacht. It is part of an officially recognized historical ensemble, listed in regional landscape documents as “one of the most significant estates on the Suna–Pallanza shoreline.”A home with a Portaluppi garden.A home rooted in Rovelli’s landscape tradition.A home inscribed in the history of global design.A home where three centuries have left their lines, like artists painting on a single canvas.Such residences cannot be