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.
A lawyer’s winter garden near the top of Via Etnea, where Paolo Lanzerotti gave Catanese Liberty one of its last flourishes.
Rebuilt from the rubble of 1908, Messina gave itself a glass-roofed gallery and opened it the day the cathedral rang again.
To dodge a monopoly, Bari built its second theatre where no contract could reach — on piles driven into the harbour.
Behind a Puglian neo-Romanesque front, Duilio Cambellotti turned the offices of a water company into a hymn to water.
In the Umbertino quarter a residential block grew a theatre behind a sinuous Liberty sign and a frieze of masks.
On the corner of Via Filangieri an engineer built his own house around a marble staircase that climbs like a shell.
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…
Modena’s covered market opened in 1931 under a light iron roof, with Graziosi’s bronze fruit-seller fountain at its heart — a Liberty hall that is still the…
The French architect Eugène Ferret won a competition to build Sanremo a Kursaal and opened it in January 1905 — a Liberty palace of gaming and concerts, the…
Montecatini’s grandest hotel began in 1870 as a promise — La Pace, peace — and became, after 1901, a Liberty showcase: Bernardini’s architecture and Galileo…