Casa Testori in Novate Milanese overlooks the tracks of Ferrovie Nord next to the family factory. It does not have a front garden that isolates it from the world: the entrance leads directly onto the street. The house where Giovanni Testori was born has an open door to the city. Sober and rigorous as befits a house of small Lombard industrialists in the early 1900s, Casa Testori, has a splash of imagination in the living room and veranda built in the 1930s. The more than 20 rooms divided on two floors and connected by a central staircase are between a red-brick vaulted cellar and a charming attic. The garden is at the back, with its large magnolia, roses and its opening – less poetic but more practical and Lombard – towards the Testori factory. Not "Villa" Testori, then, but Casa Testori. Today it is a cultural hub specialized in the production and enhancement of contemporary art.
