Gallery

Two hundred and forty photographs, and nobody in any of them.

Taken over four years by one photographer, in whatever light there happened to be. Nothing was moved and nothing was lit, and the terrace has never once been swept for a camera.

Four years· One photographer· No stylist

I · Sixty-two

The house

A building that has been photographed since 1911 and has not changed shape once.

March 2022The east facade, from the water

June 2024The east loggia at noon
November 2023The terrace, ten minutes before the rain
January 2025The main stair
September 2021Iron and glass, second floor
April 2024The gate, between the cypresses

II · Forty-eight

The rooms

Twenty-four of them, no two alike, and the photographer was let in only when they were empty.

May 2023Number eleven, in the morning
February 2024Linen, before the season
August 2022A corner of the Junior Suite
July 2024The Signature Suite, west end
October 2023A bath, second floor
March 2025Six doors, second-floor corridor

III · Seventy-one

The water

Seventy-one photographs of the same lake, which has not once looked the same twice.

February 2022Fog, from the jetty

June 2023The crossing to Bellagio

September 2024Evening, looking south

April 2022The launch, tied up

December 2023Four o’clock, from the terrace

July 2025Nothing moving at all

IV · Thirty-four

The table

Food that was cooked in order to be eaten, and photographed on its way past.

May 2024Breakfast, before anybody

October 2022The market at Como, Tuesday

August 2023Perch, from Menaggio

November 2024Chestnuts, from above Griante

January 2023The kitchen at six

March 2025The dining room, laid for eight

V · Twenty-five

The cellars

Only twenty-five, because there is very little light down there and the photographer was patient.

September 2021Before, when it was still wine

June 2024The vaulted pool

February 2025Steam, and the rock behind it

November 2022The stair down

April 2023Twelve degrees, all year round

August 2024Light, from the slot

The photographs

“In four years nobody here has once asked me to make the house look better than it is. That is a great deal rarer than it sounds.”

Nicolò Terzi· 2021 – 2025

All two hundred and forty were taken on film, and none of them has been retouched beyond dust. Prints and high-resolution files are available to press on request.