Villa Ruggeri, Pesaro - Giovanni Brega - 1904-08
This small villa overlooking the sea was commissioned by Oreste
Ruggeri, a rich Italian industrialist. The stucco ornament with
flowing, sinuous line and the decorative wrought iron balconies
and gates are identifiable features of the style known in Italy
variously as the stile floreale, the stile Inglese, or the stile
Liberty, after Liberty and Company in London, the fashionable
store and manufacturer of cotton cloth. This style, also known
as art nouveau or jugendstil, was popular in the last decade
of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. |