Pretty much every design person we know has been obsessed with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino since the debut, almost 10 years ago, of I Am Love, the Tilda Swinton movie shot primarily on location at the Villa Necchi, a Piero Portaluppi–designed home in the middle of Milan that’s something of a design-world touchstone. So it’s no surprise that there was a general freakout this weekend when T Magazine published Guadagnino’s inaugural experiment in interior design — a 9,600 square-foot, two-story ochre mansion on the shores of Lake Como, owned by Yoox founder Federico Marchetti and his partner, Kerry Olsen. Though Guadagnino isn’t a designer by trade, he assembled a crew of 150 Italian craftspeople to execute his vision, and naturally, every detail is considered. Some of our favorites include the wall-mounted brass faucet streaming into a freestanding blue marble basin, the wall panels covered in Kvadrat fabric, and the cheery kitchen, done up in a patchwork of yellows. For more images — and to revel in more exquisitely first-world details like the subterranean bathing pavilion, the 303-piece china collection, and the “helipad-sized” Hermès dining table — head over to T’s website. Ah, to be a mogul.

PHOTOS BY HENRY BOURNE