Yeliseyev Emporium
The most extravagant shop front on Nevsky Prospekt: a Style Moderne palace of glass, granite, and allegory built for the Yeliseyev merchant dynasty and still…
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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: 59 articles · 1,242 heritage places · 14 events · 27 itineraries · 3 road-books · 28 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
Singer House
Built for the Singer Manufacturing Company on Nevsky Prospekt, this six-storey Style Moderne building is crowned by a glass globe that has guided St…
Mexico City — Bellas Artes and the Déco of La Condesa
A theatre begun in marble under Porfirio Díaz and finished after a revolution, and a racetrack turned into a park ringed by Déco apartment houses. Mexico…
Timișoara — Secession Facades of the Banat
In the old Austro-Hungarian Banat, Timișoara built a dense early-twentieth-century city of Secession palaces. Its squares and outer districts still carry the…
Valencia — The Mercado Colón and Valencian Modernisme
Between 1900 and 1917 Valencia rebuilt parts of itself in iron, glass and glazed ceramic. The result is one of Spain’s most concentrated displays of Art…
Reus — Catalan Modernisme and the Birthplace of Gaudí
The second city of Catalan Modernisme after Barcelona, Reus carries the name of Antoni Gaudí and the buildings of Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Its Ruta del…
Lisbon — Arte Nova and the Déco of the Avenidas
Portugal called its Art Nouveau Arte Nova, and Lisbon wore it in tiled shopfronts and ironwork. Two decades later the Déco cinemas of the avenues rewrote the…
Saint Petersburg — The Singer House and Russian Style Moderne
For roughly fifteen years before the First World War, Saint Petersburg developed its own reading of Art Nouveau, known in Russian as modern. Nevsky Prospekt…
Subotica — The Hungarian Secession in the Vojvodina
In the flat farmland of northern Serbia, a provincial market town spent the early 1900s reinventing itself in ceramic flowers and folk-art curves. Subotica…
Napier — The Art Déco Town Rebuilt After the Earthquake
On 3 February 1931 an earthquake flattened the centre of Napier. The town that rose from the rubble is one of the most concentrated Art Déco townscapes…