Went up to San Isidro to visit the home of Villa Ocampo, one of the homes of Victoria Ocampo. The Web site for Villa Ocampo is actually quite good and contains a lot of information that the woman who was a great patron of the arts
It’s a gorgeous house, certainly worth a visit.
If you can make it out to San Isidro, then stop by Victoria Ocampo’s house in Palermo….it’s a very different style.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I visited the house 2 years ago after the first part of the “rescue works” where finished. By then, only part of the ground floor and the garden were available to visit. However the guide allowed us to visit the first floor, but nothing was there yet (that was supposed to be the second part of the remodelling). It is hard to believe that it was a “summer house” and they owned the land from Av. del Libertador down to the river!
The good thing about the house is that since Victoria had no children, nobody “emptied” the house after her death to sell all the furniture.
But I am concerned about the thousands of books of her library, that are kept somewhere in a Correo Argentino’s warehouse.
A good idea to know what the house looked like when Victoria was still alive is to watch the movie “Cuatro caras para Victoria”.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hi Ricky,
Thanks for your comment. The remodeling of the first floor is complete and is quite beautiful. Photos were not allowed of the interior, but there was a lot of furniture and the rooms were re-created to be like the time when she lived there. Quite nice, indeed!
I didn’t know about her books being stored in a warehouse. That’s quite a shame.