Salone degli Incanti — Trieste
Giorgio Polli built a basilica for selling fish: the three-nave Pescheria Centrale of 1913 on Riva Nazario Sauro was nicknamed ‘Santa Maria del Guato’ by the…
Giorgio Polli built a basilica for selling fish: the three-nave Pescheria Centrale of 1913 on Riva Nazario Sauro was nicknamed ‘Santa Maria del Guato’ by the…
Built to receive Habsburg dignitaries attending the launch of the empire’s flagship dreadnought, the Savoia Excelsior Palace is the only Trieste Liberty…
The only Trieste palazzo signed by an Italian Liberty master from the Castiglioni generation: Giuseppe Sommaruga adapted his Milanese Sezessionstil…
Ruggero and Arduino Berlam’s 1912 synagogue is a hybrid that resists easy classification: Sephardic-revival massing with Jugendstil ornamental detail, the…
Max Fabiani’s 1904 People’s House was Europe’s first multifunctional community centre and the city’s most politically charged building: the Fascist arson of…
Where Czech and Triestine Sezessionstil meet at the same desk: Costaperaria and Polívka’s 1914 corner block was built for a Prague bank’s Adriatic…
The Trieste building most often cited as the local Liberty masterpiece after Casa Bartoli: Romeo Depaoli’s 1906 block exposed on three sides, with Rathmann’s…
Romeo Depaoli’s 1909 corner block on Corso Italia brought late-Liberty commercial typology to its Trieste standard: six storeys, Romeo Rathmann’s female…
Max Fabiani’s 1905 manifesto on Piazza della Borsa is the closest Vienna Sezessionstil came to landing on Italian soil: reinforced concrete, integrated…
Bologna’s most provocative Liberty building, built for the city’s oldest chocolate company and immediately nicknamed “the Viennese chair” — a sarcastic…