Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, `il
palazzo non finito' was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats
of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to
three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city
by storm. The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her
new home a belle epoque aesthete's fantasy and herself a living
work of art; notorious British socialite Doris Castlerosse (nee
Delevingne) welcomed film stars and royalty to glittering parties
between the wars; and American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed an
exquisite collection of modern art, which today draws visitors from
around the world. Each in turn used the Unfinished Palazzo as a
stage on which to re-fashion her life, with a dazzling supporting
cast ranging from D'Annunzio and Nijinsky, through Noel Coward,
Winston Churchill and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono. Individually
sensational and collectively remarkable, these stories of modern
Venice tell us much about the ways women chose to live in the 20th
century.
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