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 Gualino and the house
Riccardo Gualino met Lionello Venturi in 1918, and this is how he described the meeting in his memoirs: "his refined tastes, in which there are already glimpses of modernism, destroyed and demolished my old tastes."
The taste for modern art was created in Gualino.
From the windows of his office in Turin, in corso Vittorio Emanuele II, now the headquarters of the Piedmont Region Inland Revenue, Gualino observed the Turin hills and his idea of building a cultural and figurative art workshop matured, a multi-function centre with enormous blocks, an ideal base for a theatre, dance and gymnastic hall, swimming pool or museum, where the Gualino collection could be exhibited (now you can visit it at the Galleria Sabauda).
The project, which was never finished, was the last of a series of daring building reconstructions, each one characterised by a different style.
Here he had to learn minimalism, huge spaces and essentiality, which are the foundation of the vast intuitive ideas of the Roman architect Busiri Vinci.
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