The Unfinished Palazzo
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Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony
to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the
fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned
with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual
state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the
early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo’s quality of fairytale
abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to attract
and inspire three fascinating women at key moments in their lives:
Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim. Each chose
the Palazzo Venier as the stage on which to build her own world of
art and imagination, surrounded by an amazing supporting cast, from
d’Annunzio and Nijinsky, via Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko
Ono. Luisa turned her home into an aesthete’s fantasy where she
hosted parties as extravagant and decadent as Renaissance court
operas – spending small fortunes on her own costumes in her quest
to become a ‘living work of art’ and muse to the artists of the
late belle époque and early modernist eras. Doris strove to make
her mark in London and Venice during the glamorous, hedonistic
interwar years, hosting film stars and royalty at glittering
parties. In the postwar years, Peggy turned the Palazzo into a
model of modernist simplicity that served as a home for her
exquisite collection of modern art that today draws tourists and
art-lovers from around the world. Mackrell tells each life story
vividly in turn, weaving an intricate history of these legendary
characters and the Unfinished Palazzo that they all at different
times called home.
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Thames & Hudson ,
Judith Mackrell
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Thames & Hudson,
Judith Mackrell
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Slovart
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