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.
Eleven original Mario Sironi posters surfaced from an antiques market — L’Ambrosiano’s editions of the day, the 1924 lottery for disfigured veterans, the 1926 Novecento debut, and the regime’s monumental X of 1932. A journey through the visual code of interwar Italy, from the Stefano Vigolo collection.
Padua: the streamline-moderne corner building of the former Kofler perfume, powder and soap works, which gave the San Giuseppe quarter its “Borgo…
Venice (1933): the stone bridge Eugenio Miozzi set over his new Rio Novo canal, named for the candle-makers who once worked this corner of the city.
Venice (1933): a brick bridge built for the opening of the Rio Novo, the fast new canal Eugenio Miozzi cut from Piazzale Roma toward the Grand Canal.
Padua (1936–1940): the parish church of the San Giuseppe quarter, brick and Istrian stone with a great circular relief of the Holy Family set into the gable.
Rubano (1937–1939): one of the rural party houses Quirino De Giorgio built across the Padua countryside, a brick block that still carries its stone…
The 1930s left a coherent layer of rationalist and stripped-classical buildings across Italian provincial cities, and Olbia is no exception. The buildings…
A severe stone block near Piazza Matteotti, raised for the war-disabled and carved in the monumental language of its decade.
Salsomaggiore’s salt-rich water built a town of grand hotels; the Berzieri baths gave it a monument. Giusti and Bernardini drew it, Galileo Chini dressed it…
A reinforced-concrete colony shaped like a ship, built around 1930 by one industrialist as a children’s seaside colony, today a hospital for sea turtles.
