It is an unspoken rule of a good Lake Como villa that large windows to take in the panoramic ... mainland Europe where the practice has long been working. Tianna Williams is Wallpaper*s staff writer.

Como, is the capital of the province and is regarded as the silk capital of the world. It is home to some 80,000 residents and lies at one end of Italy’s most popular lake.

Around 2001 or 2002, Clooney bought an 18th-century house on the western end of Lake Como called Villa Oleandra; he has since become one of the Lake’s most notable residents. Despite being a historic ...

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