Our Arcus design is a nod to 1970s-era shag pile rugs. Hand-knotted by skilled artisans in India with 19 knots per square inch, it has a long New Zealand wool pile, which is warm and extremely soft underfoot, making it ideal for your first step out of bed or near the sofa. The repetitive square pattern takes influences from the architectural shapes and colour palette of Soho House Rome.
Are you looking for information about the Pantheon Rome? You are in the right place! If you are reading this, chances are you are planning on visiting the Pantheon during your trip to Rome. Indeed,
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Church interior, Rome Italy
Rome makes us all dream of the Italian flair for living. You can’t escape the rich history, it is all around. The colors, the architecture, the materials, all can inspire us for decorating our home.
This building, the Palazzo della Civilità del Lavoro, even called il Colosseo Quadrato (Square Colosseum) as it is popularly known by roman people, is an icon of the Fascist architecture. It lies in the district of Rome known as the Esposizione Universale Roma (also known as 'E.42' or 'E.U.R.'). The E.U.R. Project was initiated in the 1920's, financed and inspired by the fascist Mussolini Government of the period. The project was never completed because the Second World War and the summary execution of Mussolini put a stop to his plans. Nevertheless, E.U.R. remains one of the most fascinating areas of Rome and its architecture has inspired many modern artists, including De Chirico (many of whose paintings were inspired by this surreal area of Rome). This building is particularly symbolic of this district, exemplifying its monumentality. The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana del Lavoro was constructed as part of the program of the Esposizione Universale Roma, a large business center and suburban complex, initiated in 1935 by Benito Mussolini for the planned 1942 World Exhibition,as a symbol of the fascism for the World. The Palazzo was designed by the architects Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula and Mario Romano and builded between 1938 and 1943. It was inaugurated on 30 November 1940 as the centerpiece of the Esposizione and continues to be its most iconic building. The architectural style is technically known as "bombastic modernism" but in everyday language it is a fascist style building... . Inspired by ancient Roman architecture (or Rationalism), its architectural style is often called as 'simplified neoclassicism'. Marcello Piacentini, the coordinator of the commission for E42, based it on the Italian Rationalism of Pagano, Libera and Michelucci. The design of the "Square Colosseum" was inspired more to celebrate the ancient Colosseum, and the structure was intended by Benito Mussolini as a celebration of the older Roman landmark. Similar to the Colosseum, the palace has a series of superimposed loggias, shown on the façade as six rows of nine arches each. These numbers are said to be an allusion to the name of the Fascist dictator: "Benito", having six letters, and "Mussolini," nine. The palace is entirely clad in travertine marble (characteristic of buildings in the E.U.R.). It is a parallelepiped on a square base, with six levels rising above a podium. The scale is imposing: the base covers an area of 8,400 square meters, and the building has a volume of 205,000 cubic meters with a height of 68 meters (50 meters from the base).
At the compellingly odd blog Under the Sun, we stumbled on an gorgious interior with messily painted, canvas like walls in what appeared to be an Italian Villa. We follwed the trail to discover it was from an article Vogue magazine ran in 1966, about artist Cy Twombly's villa in Rome. The photographs were by fashion photographer Horst. The walls we thought so beautifully, haphazardly painted, were really Twombly's canvasses. He'd tack them right onto the wall —no wooden stretchers — and paint. Inspired. As is the combination of studio and normally-uptight classical chairs. Though we could never paint like
A corner of the Italian capital has been overrun – by objets, works in progress and upcycled antiques, that is. Rolf Sachs, armed with eternal optimism and a taste for the surreal, leads the charge of arty bric-à-brac, from exit-sign tables to bucket lights. For all the conquering chaos, the Swiss artist’s car park-turned-studio is still eloquent in the design principles of its prima lingua, with palazzo-inspired lime paste and crushed-brick floors seized from the ancient Romans
