Maputo — Lourenço Marques and African Art Déco
Mozambique’s capital carries a Portuguese colonial centre where Art Déco lines from the 1930s and 1940s give way to a bolder tropical modernism. The two…
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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.
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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
Durban — Art Déco on the Indian Ocean
Granted city status in 1935, Durban grew through the decade that made Art Déco a worldwide language. The style, in Wikipedia’s phrase, “left its stamp on…
Alexandria — Cosmopolitan Déco on the Mediterranean
Egypt’s principal seaport rebuilt itself in the modern age as a Mediterranean crossroads. Its inter-war downtown still reads as a layered streetscape of Déco…
Bandung — Paris van Java and Tropical Art Déco
High on a volcanic plateau in West Java, Bandung wears the architecture of a colonial dream that was never finished. Its 1920s and 1930s buildings translate…
Cape Town — Mutual Heights and Cape Art Déco – Virtual Tour 360°
At the foot of Table Mountain, Cape Town’s old commercial core holds one of the southern hemisphere’s most assured Art Déco landmarks. Granite, setbacks and…
Havana — The Bacardí Building and Tropical Déco
Havana built its first towers in the boom years between the world wars, when a sugar-rich elite reached for marble, granite and the clean geometry of the new…
Strasbourg — The Neustadt and Rhineland Art Nouveau
After 1871 the German Empire laid a vast new city beside medieval Strasbourg. Its boulevards carry monumental imperial palaces and, soon after, a generation…
Tbilisi — Art Nouveau on the Silk Road
Tbilisi entered the twentieth century rich from trade and oil money, and that wealth left ornate facades across its hillside quarters. Its Art Nouveau…
Johannesburg — The Art Déco Skyline of the Gold City
The gold money of the 1930s rose into stepped towers across the Johannesburg city centre. Anstey’s Building and Astor Mansions still hold the line, echoing…
Ålesund — The Art Nouveau Town Reborn from Fire
A single night in January 1904 erased almost the entire town. The Ålesund that rose from the ashes within three years is one of the most coherent Art Nouveau…