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Residence and studio house
In February 1959, Jean Arp and Marguerite Hagenbach purchased a ca. 4,600-m2-large property in Locarno-Solduno. The property, which is named Ronco dei Fiori, consisted of an old Ticino residential house, an extensive garden as well as a vineyard. After various renovations, the couple moved into the house in May 1960.
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Arp’s intention to erect ‘a type of gallery building’ on the property in Solduno in order to be able to present at least part of their joint collection has been handed down from 1965. Nearly fifty years later, in the summer of 2014, this plan was finally realized.
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