{"id":151497,"date":"2025-04-19T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/retro-paradiso-a-lakeside-home-in-italy-is-now-a-nostalgic-haven\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T03:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:16:35","slug":"retro-paradiso-a-lakeside-home-in-italy-is-now-a-nostalgic-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/retro-paradiso-a-lakeside-home-in-italy-is-now-a-nostalgic-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro paradiso: a lakeside home in Italy is now a nostalgic haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA 1960s house has been brought back to its former glory, with a contemporary twist It feels as if time has stopped, frozen in the swinging 1960s, as you pass through the pristine gate that opens on to this enchanting lakefront building. The lake in question is the magical and wild Mergozzo, tiny, utterly charming and yet still rarely visited by tourists.The house was built in 1963. Its equally fascinating current owner, Hilary Belle Walker, has American roots \u2013 San Francisco is her hometown, but she moved to Italy at the age of 23. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/apr\/19\/retro-paradiso-a-lakeside-home-in-italy-is-now-a-nostalgic-haven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retro paradiso: a lakeside home in Italy is now a nostalgic haven<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A 1960s house has been brought back to its former glory, with a contemporary twist&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-Dpv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33256,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/riot-of-colour-in-a-1960s-semi\/","url_meta":{"origin":151497,"position":0},"title":"Riot of colour in a 1960s semi","date":"November 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Zinging prints and midcentury art turn Rocco Catalano\u2019s small Northamptonshire house into a box of tricks\u201cIf I could go back in time, I\u2019d live in Italy in the 1960s. 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