Despite its modest size and utilitarian character, the space includes works of great beauty, thus showing how Cerruti was forced by lack of space over the years to make use of practically all the surface area available. It contains a dozen paintings, some sculptures and furnishings, a Louis XIV clock, a wall-mounted corner cabinet attributed to Pietro Piffetti (mid-18th century) and a small 16thcentury medallion Ushak carpet of the “Tintoretto” kind from western Anatolia on the floor. The stylised lamp in the upper part of the pattern suggests that the latter was probably a prayer rug. It is called a “Tintoretto” because of the practice of naming different kinds of carpet after artists who depicted them in their paintings.

Among the works hanging on the walls, attention should be drawn to two pastels by Giacomo Balla, namely La seducente (The Seductive, 1902), in the artist’s original shaped frame, and Via Po (1904). The small gallery continues with three paintings by Massimo Campigli, a drawing by Carlo Carrà and works on paper by René Magritte, Hans Hartung, Paul Klee, and Alberto Savinio.