Miami Beach Architectural District
The world’s densest concentration of 1930s Art Deco: around 960 pastel hotels and apartment blocks in South Beach, saved from demolition by a preservation…
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Luigi De Marchi
Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 60 articles · 1,254 heritage places · 21 events · 28 itineraries · 3 road-books · 302 photographs
101 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.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Gresham Palace
A London insurance company’s Budapest address turned Art Nouveau showpiece: wrought-iron peacock gates, Zsolnay tile and a glass-roofed arcade facing the…
Museum of Applied Arts
Ödön Lechner’s manifesto for a Hungarian national style: a green-and-gold Zsolnay roof over a white hall where Indian and Islamic forms meet Art Nouveau.
Prague Main Station (Fanta Building)
The largest Art Nouveau monument in the Czech Republic hides in plain sight: Josef Fanta’s domed terminal, wrapped around a modern station the trains now…
Municipal House (Obecní dům)
The grandest civic statement of Czech Art Nouveau: a concert hall, café and ceremonial building where, in 1918, Czechoslovak independence was declared from…
Guimard Synagogue — Agoudas Hakehilos, rue Pavée
Hector Guimard’s only synagogue and one of his last great Art Nouveau works: a tall, narrow façade folded into a Marais street, its stone bending like a…
Porte Dauphine Métro Entrance — Guimard Édicule
The only one of Guimard’s glass-roofed Métro pavilions still standing where he built it: a cast-iron-and-glass canopy on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, in…
Abbesses Métro Entrance — Guimard Édicule
One of just two glass-roofed “dragonfly” entrances Hector Guimard built for the Paris Métro still standing — though this one travelled across the city to…
Castel Béranger
Hector Guimard’s first manifesto in brick, stone and cast iron: thirty-six apartments behind a façade so unconventional that Parisians nicknamed it the…
Radio City Music Hall — New York
Donald Deskey’s interiors for the 6,000-seat theater at Rockefeller Center were described at opening as the most complete expression of Art Déco in America…