Death Anniversary: Charles Eames — August 21, 1978
Charles Eames died on 21 August 1978: a pioneer of industrial design and of the inventive use of moulded plywood.
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Stefano Vigolo
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
2,828 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.
- Stazione di servizio A.G.I.P. (u00a0 Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli ) oggi Stazione di servizio Tamoil - Asmara , Eritrea
- La torre e il treno - Giorgio De Chirico - 1934 ( Stefano Vigolo )
- Villino oggi Sede dell' Ambasciata Etiope in Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Pietro Del Fabro - 1938
- Fontana di Ghezzabanda oggi Fontana Mai Jah Jah - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Lorenzo Azzolini - 1939
- Palazzo Manifatturau00a0Tabacchi oggi Palazzo British e American Tobacco Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea. 1938
- Edificio abitazione , Quartiere Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea
- Particolare Bar all'interno del Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Fabbrica Alfa Romeo - Asmara , Eritrea - 1937
- Cinema Odeon - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. Giuseppe Zacche e Giuseppe Borziani - 1937
- Edificio abitazione e negozi - Asmara , Eritrea
- Caserma della M.V.S.N ( Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale ) oggi Palazzo della Banca d'Eritrea - Asmara , Eritrea
- Cinema Augustus oggi Cinema Capitol - Asmara , Eritrea - Arch. R. Saviele - 1938
Birth Anniversary: Ray Eames — December 15, 1912
Ray Eames was born on 15 December 1912: the formidable artist, film-maker and designer who was the creative half of the Eames partnership.
Death Anniversary: Ray Eames — August 21, 1988
Ray Eames died on 21 August 1988, exactly ten years to the day after her husband: a brilliant maker of patterns and furniture in her own right.
Birth Anniversary: Giacomo Puccini — December 22, 1858
Giacomo Puccini was born at Lucca on 22 December 1858, the last great heir of the Italian operatic tradition. With La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly he took the theatres of the world by way of an immediate melody…
Death Anniversary: Giacomo Puccini — November 29, 1924
Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels on 29 November 1924, where he had gone to be treated for throat cancer. He left Turandot, his most ambitious opera, unfinished: the ending was completed by Franco Alfano from the…
Birth Anniversary: Claude Debussy — August 22, 1862
Claude Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. One of the most inventive composers of his time, he is the musical voice of the symbolist and «impressionist» season that runs parallel to Art Nouveau.…
Death Anniversary: Claude Debussy — March 25, 1918
Claude Debussy died in Paris on 25 March 1918, killed by cancer while the city was under bombardment in the Great War. He left a musical language that changed the very idea of harmony, built out of unusual scales,…
Birth Anniversary: Walter Gropius — May 18, 1883
Walter Gropius was born in Berlin on 18 May 1883. In 1919 he founded the Bauhaus at Weimar, the school that joined art, craft and industry and became the laboratory of modern design. The Fagus factory, the first…
Death Anniversary: Walter Gropius — July 5, 1969
Walter Gropius died in Boston on 5 July 1969. He had crossed the century as a protagonist: from the Germany of the Bauhaus, closed by the Nazis in 1933, to the America where he spread modern teaching. More than any…
Birth Anniversary: Hector Guimard — March 10, 1867
Hector Guimard was born at Lyon on 10 March 1867 and became the face of French Art Nouveau, so much so that in Paris the style took the name «Style Guimard». The famous entrances to the Paris Métro are his — green…