Saturday, November 7, 2015

INAIL APARTMENT HOUSE ALSO KNOWN AS "WITCHES' HOUSE"

PALAZZINA INAIL DETTA “CASA DELLE STREGHE”


1953/56 Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) and Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94)

19 apartments, 3 stores on the main front and garages below the level of the road

The top floor was used by Mario Ridolfi as his studio until the early Seventies together with Giulio Rinaldi, Wolfgang Frankl and Domenico Malagricci

Ridolfi moved later to Marmore near Terni, where he committed suicide

“The building is furrowed by deep grooves, corners are rounded and often ruffled by the projections of the windows. The crown is defined by a parapet inclined towards the outside: in the language of Ridolfi and Frankl seem to emerge suggestions with a medieval flavor” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)


“Formed in the wake of the great Roman tradition, the one of Borromini and Carimini, of the artisans who came to the architect craft through the initiation of menial jobs (he was a decorator and then designer), Ridolfi documented its unique realism of classical clarity through countless drawings: geological layers of signs that made up to order beams, stones, brick walls in an organic and necessary relationship. A difficult summary, built with patient, loving toil in which the eye recognizes, however, the charm of an essential, familiar simplicity” (Giuseppe Strappa - Repubblica of 19 marzo 1998)

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