Shanghai — The Bund and the Art Déco of the East
Between the world wars, a treaty-port boom raised one of the planet’s densest concentrations of Art Déco. Along the Bund and across the former concessions…
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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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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
Oradea — Romania’s Art Nouveau Capital
A short distance from the Hungarian border, Oradea preserves one of Central Europe’s densest concentrations of Secession architecture. Its squares and…
Ljubljana — The Secession, the Dragon Bridge and Jože Plečnik – Virtual Tour 360°
An earthquake in 1895 cleared the ground for a new Ljubljana. First came the Vienna Secession, then the architect Jože Plečnik, who reshaped the city along…
Mumbai — Marine Drive and the Art Déco Ensembles – Virtual Tour 360°
Along the curve of Marine Drive and the western edge of the Oval Maidan, Mumbai built one of the largest concentrations of Art Déco in the world. The style…
Miami — South Beach and Tropical Art Déco
South Beach holds one of the largest concentrations of Art Déco architecture anywhere. A few blocks of pastel hotels turned a Depression-era resort into a…
Munich — Birthplace of Jugendstil
In Munich the German variant of Art Nouveau found both its name and its first practitioners. The city gave the style the word that still carries it…
Darmstadt — Olbrich, the Mathildenhöhe and German Jugendstil – Virtual Tour 360°
On a hill east of the city centre, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig gathered a community of artists in 1899. Their buildings on the Mathildenhöhe became one of the…
Casa della Vittoria (Casa dei Draghi)
Turin’s most theatrical Liberty address — a corner building on Corso Francia crowned by a slender medieval tower and guarded by fierce dragon sculptures that…
Casa Guazzoni
Giovanni Battista Bossi’s corner palazzina on Via Malpighi is one of Milan’s most complete Liberty statements, where Alessandro Mazzucotelli’s wrought iron…
New York — Tiffany, the Gilded Age and Art Déco
New York compressed the full arc from Gilded Age luxury to Art Déco verticality into a single generation. Louis Comfort Tiffany redefined glass as fine art…