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A famous villa's luxurious transformation

The 15th century villa is situated on a main promenade in Conegliano and is one of the city's most significant architectural and artistic landmarks. In 2008, OPUS FIN, Franca Zoppas and Gabriella Zoppas commissioned this large scale project to architects E. De Luca and M. Foltran and Dottor Group. The architectural and artistic restoration exalts the structure and characteristic elements of the building, including the restoration of the 15th-16th century frescoes on the facade and the marble-like decorations on the first floor. The internal spaces were completed redistributed and divided into luxury condominiums with elegant finishings and state-of-the art heating and electrical systems. On the Corso Vittorio Emanuele side of the villa, an underground parking facility was discretely built for the convenience of the villa's residents.

History of the villa: The building is the result of the conglomeration of contiguous units still distinguishable from one another due to their diverse architectural characteristics. The main facade faces via XX Settembre, while the Southern facade with garden develops along Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
The earliest documents which attest to the building’s existence, then owned by the Graziani family, go back to 1522 and regard the portion with the frescoed facade, whose rich decorations certainly date back to an even earlier period. On the facade there are legible, extended frescoed portions that document two decorative phases, the first dating to circa 1450, and the second dating to the early 1500’s. The fresco designs on the first layer are geometric, with trompe l’oeil marble inlay consisting of ribbons, frames, garment hooks and mirrors which are phytomorphic in order to stress the architectural distribution of the facade and create a false, additional architectural order.
The later decorations from the 1500s were meant to make the facade more noble by creating the illusion of a marble facade with a gilded mosaic frieze, statues and varicolored scenes in the open countryside.
The Graziani heirs kept the property until 1753, when it was purchased in a state of disrepair by the Dalla Balla family. The new owners restored the building and built a new house on via XX Settembre, next to the original building, with a room in the center that was situated in both buildings and 4 rooms along it. After 1803 the building was transformed because of the incapacity of the Dalla Balla family to split up the patrimony without fragmenting the property into different segments.
In 1820 the building was sold by the Dalla Balla brothers to Signor Defendente Bidasio Imberti, apart from the oldest section which was sold to the grandson of Defendente Bidasio Imberti in 1825. In 1841, the Bidasio property abosrbed part of the adjacent Buffonelli property to the East on Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Around 1950 the property was sold to the Zoppas family who began restoration in 1955, which transformed the ancient compositional scheme of the building.