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Ernesto Basile
Elegant interpretations of the Liberty and Art Nouveau styles, the buildings of the Palermo architect Ernesto Basile (1857 - 1932), constitute a unique heritage in the urban history of Palermo. From Villa Igiea to Villino Florio, Basile designed in the city some of the greatest residences of the Sicilian upper middle class, structures that draw parallels with the works of some international designers of the time, from Horta to Hoffman, from Mackintosh to Van de Velde. Appointed director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo in 1897, Basile captured the European influences of modernist style, merging them with Sicilian tradition. An approach that is repeated in furnishings and fabrics destined for large clients such as hotels and ships: made in collaboration with Ducrot, the famous Palermo-based company of which Basile became artistic director in 1902, his furniture is the quintessence of what modernity is at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gio Ponti
Piero Fornasetti
Fratelli Castiglioni
Joe Colombo
Nanda Vigo
Ettore Sottsass
Marco Zanuso
Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Ico Parisi
Charles & Ray Eames
Gae Aulenti
Pietro Chiesa
Vico Magistretti
Giotto Stoppino
Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Carlo Nason
Marcello Cuneo
Vittorio Dassi
Paolo Buffa
Max Ingrand
Gastone Rinaldi
Pia Guidetti Crippa
Gaetano Pesce
Richard Sapper
Ingo Maurer
Gabriella Crespi
Paul McCobb
Paul Tuttle
Nendo Design
Alvaro Siza
Carl Jacob Jucker
Ernesto Basile
Sergio Mazza
Osvaldo Borsani
Oscar Torlasco
Le Corbusier
Willy Rizzo
Gaetano Sciolari
Carlo De Carli
Angelo Lelli
Gino Sarfatti
Marcel Breuer
Carlo Scarpa
Massimo & Lella Vignelli
Claudio Salocchi
Toni Zuccheri
Aldo Tura
Verner Panton
Giancarlo Piretti
Gianfranco Frattini
Guglielmo Ulrich
Franco Albini
Philippe Starck
Angelo Mangiarotti
Enzo Mari
Tito Agnoli
Kazuide Takahama
Eero Saarinen
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Carlo Ratti
Alessandro Mendini
Mario Bellini
Cleto Munari
Carlo Mollino
Bruno Munari
Hans J. Wegner
Vladimir Kagan
Studio BBPR
Giovanni Michelucci
Norman Foster
George Nelson
Paolo Venini
Gerrit Rietveld
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