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.

In the late 18th century, the poet William Wordsworth embarked on a meandering trek along the serpentine shores of Lake Como, rhapsodising about the ... Laura May Todd, Wallpaper's Milan Editor, based ...