Salotto Buono: the “Art of Conservation” and the Permanence of an Italian Room

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Figure 1 Francesca Romana Forlini, Salotto of a post-war palazzina in Pescara, 2020.

Figure 2a Francesca Romana Forlini, Salotti inside a 1970s housing estate, Pescara.

Figure 3 Francesca Romana Forlini, Gardens of Viale Etiopia’s towers, Mario Ridolfi and Wolfgang Frankl architects, Rome, 2019.

Figure 4 Francesca Romana Forlini, Courtyard of Palazzo Federici, Mario De Renzi architect, Rome (1931-37), 2019.

Figure 5 Plan of a Modern Quarter of the 1920s. Source: Cosseta (2000, 88).

Figure 6 Francesca Romana Forlini, Salotto inside Palazzo Federici, Rome, 2019.

Figure 7a Francesca Romana Forlini, Salotto inside an early XX century block, Rome, 2019.

Figure 8 Mario Ridolfi and Wolfgang Frankl, Towers in Viale Etiopia (1949-55), typical plan.

Figure 9 INA-casa dossier n°1, diagrams n° 1, 17, 30 and 31 for the internal distribution of dwellings (S = soggiorno, P = dining room, C = kitchen, B = bedroom). Source: Di Giorgio (2011, 20).

Figure 10a Francesca Romana Forlini, Salotto and significant objects: the dining table and paintings.

Cosseta, Katrin. 2000. Ragione e Sentimento Dell’abitare: La Casa e l’Architettura nel Pensiero Femminile tra le Due Guerre. Milan: Franco Angeli.

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