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Il Girasole: A House Near Verona (Hardcover)
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Il Girasole: A House Near Verona (Hardcover)
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On the slope of a gentle hill on the northern boundary of the Po
basin in Northern Italy stands a remarkable house. A modernist
villa in the middle of a park, with its metallic facade shining
above an enormous circular base of reddish stone. The extraordinary
structure of the Casa Girasole (The Sunflower) follows the way of
the sun across the sky - and the inhabitants' vista over the
surrounding landscape - during the day, driven by an electric motor
that can turn the entire house by 360 . It was built in the early
1930s by the Italian architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore
Fagiuoli and is an important example of Italian Futurismo in
architecture. Preserved entirely in its original state, including
the original furniture and curtains, it makes traceable the
fascination for modern technology, but also the already slightly
broken optimism, of that period. The documentary film 'I Girasole:
A House Near Verona' by Christoph Schaub and Marcel Meili enables
the viewer to take part in a day at the house that turns around its
vertical axis once. The movie introduces both the architecture and
atmosphere of the building, its various rooms, furnishings and
decoration. It gives a memoir of the house's history and of the
time and feeling of life in which it was conceived. The film was
awarded the 1st prize at the 1995 biennale Film and Architecture in
Graz (Austria). The DVD is complemented by a booklet with
introductory essays and illustrations.
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