Recently reading an article in the online DailyArt magazine about Antoni Gaudì’s extraordinary Casa Batlló in Barcelona, (*see below), I was reminded of the striking art nouveau house (above) just around the corner from our apartment in Florence.
The Villa Broggi-Caraceni, in via Scipione Ammirato, is one of the best examples of stile Liberty, Liberty Style, the Italian variant of art nouveau, which flourished in the 1890s and 1900s. It was designed and built in 1911 by the architect Giovanni Michelazzi, perhaps the greatest exponent of this style in the city.
Squeezed into a rather tight building-space, surrounded by modern apartment blocks and the neoclassical façades popular when Florence was Italy’s capital city, the house still brings a smile to our morning walks, exuberant architecture blossoming under the blue Italian sky. I thought I would share the sight of it with you.
*You can read the article in the DailyArt magazine about Antoni Gaudì’s extraordinary Casa Batlló in Barcelona by clicking here. Pictures below, the façade and the sinuous window of the piano nobili.