The Villa From an Oscar-Nominated Film Can Be Yours
The 16th-century Italian mansion in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ has a faded, aristocratic charm and comes partially furnished
Villa Lombardia, built in 1500, is for sale for about $2.1 million (1.7 million euros). The 14-bedroom, seven-bath estate is in Lombardy, Italy, and was used as the set location for director Luca Guadagnino’s Academy Award-nominated film, Call Me by Your Name, based on the gay coming-of-age novel of the same name by André Aciman.
The Italian-born director was well-acquainted with the villa before shooting the film. “I had known that house for many years; I even dreamed of buying that house,” Guadagnino told Architectural Digest. “I knew where I was going to set the action of the film — this place with faded, aristocratic charm, that a professor and his wife might have inherited but can’t quite keep up.” The villa is being sold partially furnished, with some of the same furnishings seen in the film.
The Italian-born director was well-acquainted with the villa before shooting the film. “I had known that house for many years; I even dreamed of buying that house,” Guadagnino told Architectural Digest. “I knew where I was going to set the action of the film — this place with faded, aristocratic charm, that a professor and his wife might have inherited but can’t quite keep up.” The villa is being sold partially furnished, with some of the same furnishings seen in the film.
The villa’s facade features a stone portico above the entryway. Above the portico is a terrace accessible from the second floor. The windows have green-painted shutters that can open and close.
In this scene, Elio plays Bach’s Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother on the piano in the living room at the request of Oliver, his father’s American summer research assistant, played by Armie Hammer.
The grand living room has a large stone fireplace with a hearth that’s almost large enough to stand in. The same sofa and armchairs used in the film are seen here covered in contemporary white slipcovers.
In this scene, Elio’s father, Lyle Perlman, played by Michael Stuhlbarg, introduces Oliver to his son. Perlman is a professor of antiquities, and Oliver is a graduate student.
The villa’s library has three walls lined with built-in bookshelves, a large stone fireplace and an antique table that doubles as a desk.
In the library, Oliver listens attentively on a salmon-colored velvet sofa as Professor Perlman gives a soliloquy on the ancients.
The same sofa and antique table seen in the film remain in the library. However, although the wall behind the sofa is beige in the film, here it’s covered with red wallpaper.
It’s just not the villa that makes this Italian estate so enchanting. Many of the most memorable scenes in the film take place amid the property’s lovely landscaped gardens. Here, Elio and Oliver sit across an outdoor table from Perlman and his wife (and Elio’s mother), Annella, played by Amira Casar.
The manicured property features multiple marble statutes (this one also appears in the previous photo). Alas, the lovely outdoor pool seen in the film is not actually on this property. But with nearly 5 acres of land, the estate should have plenty of room to add a pool if you like.
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Elio, the film’s 17-year-old protagonist, played by Timothée Chalamet, watches the arrival of his family’s summer houseguest and soon-to-be crush, Oliver, from his second-floor bedroom window.