Villa Ocampo - San Isidro - Buenos Aires
Villa Ocampo is an imposing French-Victorian style mansion and one of the few remaining exemplars of the late 19th century ranch-home. Located in San Isidro (Buenos Aires), it belonged to the Argentine writer and culture promoter Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979). Today the Villa is the site of the only cultural project of its kind in Argentina and in Latin America: the property is important for its architecture, interior furnishings and library, but more than anything for its historical function as a sanctuary for some of the primary crafters of twentieth century thought. Well-known Argentine and foreign intellectuals — including Graham Greene, Roger Caillois, Waldo Frank, Alfonso Reyes, Albert Camus, André Malraux, Aldous Huxley, Le Corbusier, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Maurice Ravel, Walter Gropius, Igor Stravinski and Jorge Luis Borges — visited Victoria at the Villa Ocampo and there read, discussed, and mulled over many critical ideas and projects of the time. In 1973 Victoria donates Villa Ocampo to UNESCO “to be used in a vivid and creative manner, for the production, investigation, experimentation and development of cultural activities…” - There she died on January 27. 1979 at the age of 88.
Villa Ocampo - San Isidro - Buenos Aires
Villa Ocampo is an imposing French-Victorian style mansion and one of the few remaining exemplars of the late 19th century ranch-home. Located in San Isidro (Buenos Aires), it belonged to the Argentine writer and culture promoter Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979). Today the Villa is the site of the only cultural project of its kind in Argentina and in Latin America: the property is important for its architecture, interior furnishings and library, but more than anything for its historical function as a sanctuary for some of the primary crafters of twentieth century thought. Well-known Argentine and foreign intellectuals — including Graham Greene, Roger Caillois, Waldo Frank, Alfonso Reyes, Albert Camus, André Malraux, Aldous Huxley, Le Corbusier, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Maurice Ravel, Walter Gropius, Igor Stravinski and Jorge Luis Borges — visited Victoria at the Villa Ocampo and there read, discussed, and mulled over many critical ideas and projects of the time. In 1973 Victoria donates Villa Ocampo to UNESCO “to be used in a vivid and creative manner, for the production, investigation, experimentation and development of cultural activities…” - There she died on January 27. 1979 at the age of 88.