Finding Villa Oberti

Due persone, un uomo e una donna, abbracciati e sorridenti, si stanno guardando con affetto in un ambiente esterno al tramonto, circondati da vegetazione e alberi, con il cielo che si tinge di colori caldi.

Narguess e Michele

Villa Oberti came into Narguess and Michele’s lives much like certain places are meant to: quietly, yet with an immediate and lasting presence.

Narguess, born in Tehran and raised within a culture shaped by memory, art, textiles, proportion and beauty, brought with her to Italy a way of looking at things that seeks their soul before their surface. Her personal and professional path moves through fashion, design and the search for a language capable of bringing together Persian roots and a contemporary sensibility. In Villa Oberti, she recognised something familiar: a house with a deep history, fragile and strong at once, asking to be listened to before being transformed.

Michele, with a background spanning marketing, branding, digital and the worlds of luxury and hospitality, shared the same intuition from the beginning: this house was not simply asking to be restored, but to be guided towards a new life. Not as a property project, nor simply as a holiday home, but as a place capable of welcoming, telling stories and giving time back to those who stay.

When Narguess and Michele first saw Villa Oberti, they fell in love with its quiet. With its time-worn walls, the soft light entering through the windows, the garden that seems to protect the house and the valley surrounding it. They felt that this place still had much to say.

The restoration grew from that encounter. With the help of Atelier Atollo, the house was brought back to life with respect, care and restraint. Every decision was made not to erase what was already there, but to allow it to breathe again: preserving memory, welcoming the present and making room for a new form of hospitality.

Today, Villa Oberti is the result of that shared vision. A house loved before it was transformed, restored not to become perfect, but to become alive again. A place where history meets the sensibility of those who chose it, and where every guest is invited to enter with the same gentleness with which the house itself was rediscovered.