Garage Musmeci
One of the city’s earliest purpose-built car showrooms, dressed by Fichera in flamboyant Liberty.
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Carla Szathvary
Carla Szathvary writes on Italian Liberty and Art Nouveau, and manages partnerships and media relations for Cultural Heritage Online.
Contributions: 11 articles · 73 heritage places · 9 events · 5 photographs
24 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- Quali differenze e caratteristiche tra lo stile Art Decu00f2, Art Nouveau e il Liberty Italiano dei primi del '900
- Collezionismo | Art Nouveau, Aste On Line di oggetti d'Arte, Design e Arredamento
- Collezionismo | Art Du00e9co, Aste On Line di oggetti d'Arte, Design e Arredamento
- Manifesto - La Stampa, 1899
- Sunset - Alphonse Mucha
- La Sculpture - Henri Privat-Lievmont
- Ritratto di Cleo de Merode
- La Du00e9pu00c3u00aache de Toulouse
- Statuetta in bronzo
- Statuetta in bronzo a patina bruna
- Piccolo Pierrot, lampada da tavolo.
- Statuetta in bronzo a patina bruna
Palazzo Rosa (Catania)
The bright-pink Liberty house that greets travellers the moment they step out of Catania’s station.
Teatro Sangiorgi
A summer garden theatre that opened with La bohème in 1900 and grew into the city’s Liberty pleasure-house.
Villa Zingali Tetto
A lawyer’s winter garden near the top of Via Etnea, where Paolo Lanzerotti gave Catanese Liberty one of its last flourishes.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele III
Rebuilt from the rubble of 1908, Messina gave itself a glass-roofed gallery and opened it the day the cathedral rang again.
Teatro Margherita
To dodge a monopoly, Bari built its second theatre where no contract could reach — on piles driven into the harbour.
Palazzo dell’Acquedotto Pugliese
Behind a Puglian neo-Romanesque front, Duilio Cambellotti turned the offices of a water company into a hymn to water.
Kursaal Santalucia
In the Umbertino quarter a residential block grew a theatre behind a sinuous Liberty sign and a frieze of masks.
Palazzo Mannajuolo
On the corner of Via Filangieri an engineer built his own house around a marble staircase that climbs like a shell.
Grand Hotel Miramare, Santa Margherita Ligure
The white Liberty Miramare opened on the Gulf of Tigullio in 1903 and never left the international set — it was from its terrace, in 1933, that Marconi sent…