Ignazio gardella biography of alberta

Ignazio Gardella senior, a kind of promenade more than 400 meters long, which allowed to observe the port and the area behind it from an elevated position.

In 2015 Milan's Galleria d'Arte Moderna, restructured by Gardella himself, hosted the exhibition on Molteni&C's 80 years in the furniture business.

The “materials for a discussion” collection brings together, in an inclusive spirit, all the contributions that have been sent in the form of short articles.

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International Decorative Arts

DESIGNER PROFILES

Romney Green

125 years after his birth the memory of the Arts and Crafts woodworker Romney Green was preserved for posterity recently when a commemorative plaque was unveiled outside the Christchurch premises where ARG (as he was known) lived and worked from 1919 until his death in 1945.

The plaque was unveiled by mästare craftsman Graham Castle, now 87 and who worked with vred from 1925 to 1935, in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Christchurch, representatives of the family and the V&A, and other ARG associates. Graham, then a lad of 17, is second from the right in the well-known group photograph of vred and his staff taken outside the premises in 1927 and which appears in Mary Greensted's book "Good Citizen's Furniture".

Examples of ARG's work can be seen in the V&A, Cheltenham Museum, the Holburne Museum in Bath, Abbot Hall Museum Kendal, and Christchurch Priory. He exhibited locally at the Bournemouth Ar

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Historic center of Genoa

Historic sector in Genoa, Italy

Place in Liguria, Italy

Historic center of Genoa Centro storico di Genova

Country	Italy
Region	Liguria
Province	Genoa
City	Genoa

The historic center of Genoa is the core of the old town organized in the maze of alleys (caruggi) of medieval origin that runs - from east to west - from the hill of Carignano (Genoa) to the Genova Piazza Principe railway station, close to what was once the Palazzo del Principe, residence of Admiral Andrea Doria. Urbanistically, the area is part of Municipio I Centro-Est.

However, the current municipal area was created by the merger, which took place on several occasions starting in the second half of the 19th century, of historic Genoa with adjacent municipalities and towns (now neighborhoods), some of which have more or less ancient historic centers of their own and have been urbanistically revolutionized over the years.

The major urban planning operati

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Ciao Alitalia: the epilogue of a story of Italian style and design

In the '90s the New York Times noted how Alitalia was mostly renown for its "trendy aircraft interiors and flight attendant uniforms by designers like Giorgio Armani, rather than for service or punctuality".

An analysis that, although cynical, accurately depicted how the Italian flag carrier airline, from the end of the Second World War up to its recent capitulation, has been the country's curse and blessing, faithfully incarnating its (aesthetic) highs and (managerial) lows.

The aesthetic evolution of Alitalia often found a precious stage in Domus' pages, especially through adverts embodying the paradigm of the combination between graphic design and European mid-century elegance. Adverts where the Alitalia aircrafts, equipped with Rolls Royce engines, were dubbed as "the most modern and comfortable reaction planes". Luxury, exclusivity, and performativity, in one word: jet-set.