The Villa Mariani is located at 5 Via Fontana Vecchia in Bordighera on the Riviera in the province of Imperia, in northern Italy near the French border.

This expansion saw the collaboration of numerous nationally known craftsmen such as the cabinet-maker Eugenio Quarti, who created much furniture, the bronze worker Giovanni Lomazzi,[2] who took charge of the brass, and Alessandro Mazzucotelli (it), who made the iron decorations.

On this occasion the north-western wing was extended, the balconies were closed and a terrace built to admire the lower city, the sea and the French coast.

The lounge, which thanks to Winter's expansion, reached 90 m2 (970 sq ft), still retains a belief in oak paneling built by Eugenio Quarter.

In the dining room there is a brass glass case by Giovanni Lomazzi, created for the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, which earned him an honorable mention.

Mariani wanted a large studio to work comfortably and to gather his art collections (carpets, porcelain, ancient weapons etc.).

Very deep foundations were dug to withstand the upper floors, which were then built in 1925 when a new building hid the beautiful view of the atelier.

On the left, on the corner of the building, there is a pinnacle of Milan Cathedral and, on the right, a bas-relief as representing Mariani's wife, Marcellina Caronni, made by Paul Troubetzkoy.

[3] On Mariani's death, the property passed to Mary, daughter of Marcellina Caronni, whom he had adopted and then to his grandson, the notary Pompeo Lomazzi.

After a complete renovation, which lasted two years realized in collaboration with the Superintendency for Architectural Heritage of Liguria, "La Specola" returned to its former glory.

In a letter dated February 5, 1884 Monet wrote: "... a garden like this is indescribable, it is pure magic, all plants in the world grow there in the land and not appear cured, there is a tangle of palm trees of every variety, all kinds of oranges and tangerines ... "[7] One day Queen Margaret of Italy came to the villa unannounced to congratulate the artist for his portrait of King Umberto.