Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 561 articles · 145 heritage places · 687 events · 12 itineraries · 249 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Camillo Olivetti (Ivrea, 13 August 1868 – Biella, 4 December 1943), founder in 1908 of the company at Ivrea that carries his name, died in 1943. The firm he created would become a world model of design and industrial…
Camillo Olivetti (Ivrea, 13 August 1868 – Biella, 4 December 1943), engineer, founded in 1908 at Ivrea the first Italian typewriter factory, Olivetti. He began a company that would make the industrial product an…
Alfonso Bialetti (Omegna, 17 June 1888 – 5 March 1970), who invented the Moka Express in 1933, died at eighty-one. His octagonal coffee pot is today among the most widely owned objects of Italian design anywhere in the…
Alfonso Bialetti (Omegna, 17 June 1888 – 5 March 1970), after ten years in the aluminium industry in France, opened a workshop of his own at Crusinallo, in Piedmont. In 1933 he invented the Moka Express: the octagonal…
Luigi Stipa (Appignano del Tronto, 30 November 1900 – 9 January 1992), inventor of the «ducted propeller» and of the experimental Stipa-Caproni of 1932, died at ninety-one. He claimed for a long time, and without full…
Luigi Stipa (Appignano del Tronto, 30 November 1900 – 9 January 1992), an engineer who worked in aeronautics, hydraulics and civil engineering, devised the «ducted propeller»: an airscrew enclosed in a barrel-shaped…
Secondo Campini (Bologna, 28 August 1904 – Milan, 7 February 1980), Italian pioneer of jet propulsion and inventor of the motorjet of the Caproni Campini N.1, died in Milan. Anniversary documented by Cultural Heritage…
Secondo Campini (Bologna, 28 August 1904 – Milan, 7 February 1980), engineer and pioneer of jet propulsion, devised the «motorjet», a reaction engine in which the compressor is driven by a piston engine. His Caproni…
Alessandro Marchetti (Cori, 16 June 1884 – Sesto Calende, 5 December 1966), designer of the S.55 flying boats of the Atlantic crossings and of the S.M.79 «Sparviero» bomber, died at Sesto Calende, the home of SIAI…
Alessandro Marchetti (Cori, 16 June 1884 – Sesto Calende, 5 December 1966), engineer and designer, was the principal draughtsman of SIAI Savoia-Marchetti. The S.55 flying boats of Balbo’s Atlantic cruises are his, and…
