La Quinta El Cerrito

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La Quinta El Cerrito

January 22, 2009 by manmakehome

I tore these pages out of World of Interiors a few years ago, but have held on to them because they completely blew me away. Check out this truly inspirational villa in Caracas designed by Italian architect, designer and artist extraordinaire, Giò Ponti. I can’t say enough about the splendour of this house – dubbed ‘La Quinta El Cerrito’ (translates to ‘The Little Hill House’). I particularly love the Harlequin-inspired marble floors, the revolving yellow cabinets (to hide the controversial stag heads), the indoor raised flower beds, the single ‘walnut bed’ and the pattered ceilings. It’s all a bit mad – but together it works perfectly. The house was finished in 1957 – but 50 years later looks incredibly contemporary… now that is visionary!

9 Responses

on September 15, 2009 at 9:09 am | Reply Villa Planchart. Джо Понти, 1957 на Блог журнала Interni.

[…] https://manmakehome.com/2009/01/22/la-quinta-el-cerrito/ — здесь выложена отсканированная публикация виллы из журнала World of Interiors. Буквы разглядеть невозможно, а фотографии — можно. Эти сканы довольно низкого качества, поэтому в своем посте я их выкладывать не стал. Кому интересно — советую пойти по ссылке: в интерьере еще много чудесных мест. […]
on November 20, 2009 at 10:59 pm | Reply maira

espetacular!!!
on January 16, 2010 at 7:34 am | Reply BroobUnoK

А мне блог понравился
on January 21, 2010 at 9:46 pm | Reply BroobUnoK

Блог очень понравился. Так держать!!!
on January 22, 2010 at 7:51 pm | Reply BroobUnoK

Не подскажете, как ссылки в футере убрать, если он закодирован. С интересом читал ваш блог и тоже решил завести себе на подобную тему. Заранее спасибо.
on October 15, 2010 at 4:30 pm | Reply Palazzo Palazzo « Man Make Home

[…] and original frescoes. And if that’s not impressive enough, the bathroom was redesigned by Giò Ponti in the 1920′s (featuring a pretty spectacular green marble floor and gold tiled […]
on August 25, 2011 at 8:41 pm | Reply Mariana

Great post! I am from Caracas, Venezuela, and i just wanted to point out that “Quinta” in spanish does mean fifth, but in this case it means “House”. All home names in Venezuela are preceeded by the word Quinta. So “Quinta El Cerrito” means really “Home (called) El Cerrito”.
Right now the house is a museum and anyone can visit. Also art seminars are held there every now and then
Best wishes,
Mariana
- on August 30, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Reply manmakehome
  
  Thanks Mariana – very helpful! I’ll amend the post. Sounds like an amazing place… hopefully I’ll make it there one day!
on December 31, 2012 at 8:12 am | Reply snowballwannabe

That’s not true, Mariana. Not “All home names in Venezuela are preceeded by the word Quinta.”: in fact the “quinta” applies for a stage between a ‘mansion’ (a house with great luxury, plenty of spaces and isolated from any other living structure) and a regular house (simpler and not fancy). Anyway, “Villa Planchart” or “Quinta El Cerrito” (The IF Quinta) by Giò Ponti is a superbe work of art.