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A place of CONTRASTS

Marco Arosio is a collector and connoisseur, who has dedicated his life to the search for antiques that will make one's heart skip a beat. And Villa Singer, his home in Gorla, Milan, is filled with evidence of his years in the business. Built in the early 1900s by an Austrian nobleman, after whom the villa is named, the property was used as both a residence and a laboratory for creating perfumes.

Overlooking the banks of the Martesana Canal, there are locals who still remember

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